stealing

Roget category 791

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.2. Transfer of property

#791. Stealing

noun

stealing etc. v. — theft, thievery, latrociny^†, direption^† — abstraction, appropriation — plagiary, plagiarism — autoplagiarism^† — latrocinium^†.
spoliation, plunder, pillage — sack, sackage^† — rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia^†, rape, depredation, raid — blackmail.
piracy, privateering, buccaneering — license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal.
filibustering, filibusterism^† — burglary — housebreaking — badger game [Slang].
robbery, highway robbery, hold-up [U.S.], mugging.
peculation, embezzlement — fraud etc. 545 — larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting.
thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia^†, den of Cacus, den of thieves.
blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].
[person who commits theft] thief etc. 792.

verb

steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim^†, crib, cabbage, palm — abstract — appropriate, plagiarize.
convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp — make off with, walk off with, run off with — run away with — spirit away, seize etc. (lay violent hands on) 789.
plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate^†, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer^†, maraud, lift cattle, poach — smuggle, run — badger [Slang] — bail up, hold up, stick up — bunco, bunko, filibuster.
swindle, peculate, embezzle — sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece — defraud etc. 545 — obtain under false pretenses — live by one's wits.
rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul — set a thief to catch a thief.
disregard the distinction between meum and disregard the distinction between meum and tuum [Lat.].
[receive stolen goods] fence, launder, launder money.

adjective

thieving etc. v. — thievish, light-fingered — furacious^†, furtive — piratical — predaceous, predal^†, predatory, predatorial^† — raptorial etc. (rapacious) 789.
stolen etc. v..

phrase

sic vos non vobis [Lat.].

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