steal
/stiːl/ noun C2- The act of stealing.
- A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it. · Near-synonyms: bargain, good value, value for money· At this price, this car is a steal.
- A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- A stolen base.
- Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
Plural steals
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa, the night thief, who could slip along the branches as quietly as moss grows, and steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived; of old Kaa, who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.
“Of course, I don’t suppose she meant to steal it or anything like that.
She watched Dorothy carefully, to see if she ever took off her shoes, thinking she might steal them.
A SHEPHERD once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks.
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