词组 | steal |
释义 | steal /stiːl/ verb to illegally take something that belongs to someone elsenounssteal some money/jewellery etc She accused him of stealing money from her.steal sb’s wallet/purse/credit card/phone etc Someone stole my wallet.steal a car/computer/painting etc The car was stolen from outside their house in the early hours of the morning.steal sb’s land The local people say that the settlers stole their land, and now they want it back.steal sb’s idea Another firm stole his idea and made a lot of money.steal sb’s identity Every year, thousands of people have their identity stolen by criminals on the internet.stolen goods Police found hundreds of pounds worth of stolen goods.prepositionssteal sth from sb He stole money from his parents in order to buy drugs.THESAURUS: steal take to remove something that belongs to someone else, without asking permission: The thieves took all her money. | They didn’t take much – just a few items of jewellery.Take or steal?Take is often used about money and other things that can easily be carried away. You can take something by accident, without realizing that it belongs to another person: Sorry, have I taken your chair?Steal sounds stronger and more disapproving than take. nick BrE informal to steal something: Someone’s nicked my wallet! | Things are always getting nicked at school.Nick is very informal. Don’t use it in writing. robbank | shop | store | post office to steal money or other things from a bank, shop, or person: Tempton was arrested after robbing a bank in Texas. | He used the gun to rob a convenience store. | An elderly man was attacked and robbed of all his money by a gang of youths. mug to attack someone in the street in order to steal something from them: People in this area are frightened of being mugged when they go out. | Someone tried to mug me outside the station. burgle BrE burglarize AmEhouse | apartment | flat to go into someone’s home and steal things, especially when the owners are not there: Their house was burgled while they were away on holiday. | We’ve been burgled three times. hold upbank | post office | shop | store | driver to steal from a place or person, by threatening to use a gun or other weapon: The couple went around the US holding up banks. | A man tried to hold up a post office with an imitation gun. | The movie is about a gang of robbers who hold up a jewelry store. | He held me up at gunpoint and stole my Porsche (=he threatened to shoot me if I didn’t give him what he wanted). lootshops | stores | businesses | houses | museum | tomb | city | country | gold | art to steal things from shops and other buildings, especially during a war, a protest, or a natural disaster, when the police or the army do not have control of an area: Angry crowds looted local shops. | Protesters looted several businesses in the downtown area. | Gangs of young men looted people’s houses and set fire to public buildings. | The city was looted by enemy soldiers. | The former dictator looted the country of much of its oil wealth. | The gold was looted by the Nazis. | There is a collection of art looted from all over Europe. ransackhome | house | shop | place | building | church | town | city to go through a place stealing things and causing damage: Masked robbers tied her up and ransacked her home. | After beating him, they ransacked the house, looking for anything valuable. | Fans smashed up cars and ransacked shops. | She came home to find that the place had been ransacked, and all her jewellery had gone. | The great church of St Sophia was ransacked, and its silver icons stolen. | The town was ransacked by rebel soldiers. defraudgovernment | company | employer | investors | people to get money from an organization or group of people in a dishonest way: The men face long prison sentences for attempting to defraud the US government. | Zettner was jailed for five years last month for defrauding the company of £1 million. | The salesmen were involved in schemes to defraud investors. | Xu and others are accused of defrauding people of 32 million yuan ($4 million). embezzlemoney to steal money from the organization you work for, especially money that you are responsible for: The governor and his wife were convicted of embezzling public money. | Government officials embezzled more than $2.5 million from the department. poachstaff | customers | clients | passengers | players to secretly get workers or customers from another company: They poached staff from IBM, in order to set up their own company. | Someone has been poaching our customers by offering them cheap deals.Poach was originally used about secretly hunting animals on someone else’s land. plagiarize also plagiarise BrEwork | book | essay | speech | ideas | words to take another person’s work or ideas and pretend that you wrote them yourself: If they find out you’ve been plagiarizing other students’ work, you could be in serious trouble. | He claimed that his book had been plagiarized by Brown. | He accused Obama of plagiarizing his speeches. | Hobbes was accused of plagiarizing Warner’s ideas.The crime of stealing things from shops is called shoplifting: Shoplifting costs stores millions of pounds every year. |
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