steal

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I.steal¹ S3 W3 /stiːl/ BrE AmE verb (past tense stole /stəʊl $ stoʊl/, past participle stolen /ˈstəʊlən $ ˈstoʊ-/)
[Language: Old English; Origin: stelan]
1. TAKE SOMETHING [intransitive and transitive] to take something that belongs to someone else:
Boys broke into a shop and stole £45 in cash.
steal from
He stole money from his parents.
steal something from somebody/something
He’d stolen the flowers from our garden.
2. USE IDEAS [intransitive and transitive] to use someone else’s ideas without getting permission or without admitting that they are not your own ideas SYN pinch:
Inventors know that someone is always going to try to steal their designs.
steal something from somebody
A well-known scientist was accused of stealing his former student’s ideas.
3. MOVE SOMEWHERE [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to move quietly without anyone noticing you SYN creep
steal into/across etc
He dressed quietly and stole out of the house.
4. steal the show/limelight/scene to do something, especially when you are acting in a play, that makes people pay more attention to you than to other people:
Elwood stole the show with a marvellous performance.
5. steal a look/glance etc to look at someone or something quickly and secretly
6. SPORT
a) [intransitive and transitive] to run to the next ↑base before someone hits the ball in the sport of baseball
b) [transitive] to suddenly take control of the ball, ↑puck etc when the other team had previously had control of it, for example in ↑basketball or ↑ice hockey:
Roy steals the ball four times in the first half.
7. steal a kiss to kiss someone quickly when they are not expecting it
8. steal a march on somebody to gain an advantage over someone by doing something that they had planned to do before them:
He was afraid another scholar was going to steal a march on him and publish first.
9. steal sb’s thunder to get the success and praise someone else should have got, by doing what they had intended to do
10. steal sb’s heart literary to make someone fall in love with you
⇨ beg, borrow, or steal at ↑beg(8)
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THESAURUS
▪ steal to illegally take something that belongs to someone else: The thieves stole over £10,000 worth of computer equipment. | Thousands of cars get stolen every year.
▪ take to steal something – used when it is clear from the situation that you mean that someone takes something dishonestly: The boys broke into her house and took all her money. | They didn’t take much – just a few items of jewellery.
▪ burgle British English, burglarize American English [usually passive] to go into someone’s home and steal things, especially when the owners are not there: Their house was burgled while they were away. | If you leave windows open, you are asking to be burgled.
▪ rob to steal money or other things from a bank, shop, or person: The gang were convicted of robbing a bank in Essex. | An elderly woman was robbed at gunpoint in her own home. | He’s serving a sentence for robbing a grocery store.
▪ mug to attack someone in the street and 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.
▪ nick/pinch British English informal to steal something: Someone’s nicked my wallet! | When I came back, my car had been pinched.
▪ embezzle to steal money from the organization you work for, especially money that you are responsible for: Government officials embezzled more than $2.5 million from the department.
▪ shoplifting stealing things from a shop by taking them when you think no one is looking: Shoplifting costs stores millions of pounds every year.
▪ phishing the activity of dishonestly persuading people to give you their credit card details over the Internet, so that you can steal money from their bank account: Phishing is becoming very popular with computer criminals.
II.steal² BrE AmE noun [countable]
1. be a steal informal to be very cheap:
an excellent seafood dish that is a steal at $8.25
2. the act of suddenly taking control of the ball when the other team had previously had control of it, especially in ↑basketball:
Johnson had ten points and a steal in the first half.
3. the act of running to the next ↑base before someone hits the ball in the sport of baseball

stealhu

◎	[sti:l]
※	ngoại động từ stole; stolen
	■	(to steal something from somebody / something) ăn cắp, lấy trộm
		☆	he stole a bun from the shop
			hắn ta đã lấy cắp cái bánh sữa ở cửa hàng
		☆	he stole from the rich to give to the poor
			anh ta lấy của người giàu đem cho người nghèo
		☆	someone had stolen my watch
			ai đó đã ăn cắp đồng hồ của tôi
		☆	I've had my watch stolen
			tôi bị mất cắp chiếc đồng hồ
	■	đạt được cái gì nhanh hoặc lén lút (bất ngờ hoặc dùng mưu mẹo); làm vụng trộm; khéo chiếm được (bằng thủ đoạn kín đáo...)
		☆	to steal a kiss from somebody
			hôn trộm ai
		☆	to steal a few minutes' sleep
			ngủ vụng vài phút
		☆	to steal a glance at somebody in the mirror
			liếc trộm ai trong gương
※	nội động từ
	■	(+ in, out, away) lẻn, chuồn; đi lén
		☆	to steal out of the room
			lẻn ra khỏi phòng
		☆	to steal into the house
			lẻn vào trong nhà
		☆	a tear stole down her cheek
			một giọt nước mắt lặng lẽ lăn xuống má nàng
		☆	the morning light was stealing through the shutters
			ánh sáng ban mai lọt qua các khe cửa chớp
	〆	to steal a march (on somebody)
		✓	giành được một ưu thế đối với ai bằng cách làm điều gì một cách bí mật hoặc có mánh lới, hay bằng cách hành động trước khi người đó ra tay; lén đến trước (ai); tranh thủ trước (ai)
	〆	to steal the scene/show
		✓	được hoan nghênh nhiệt liệt
	〆	to steal somebody's thunder
		✓	tước đoạt sự cố gắng thành đạt của ai bằng cách làm trước anh ta, gièm pha những điều anh ta nói, làm...; phỗng tay trên ai
※	danh từ
	■	(từ Mỹ, nghĩa Mỹ) sự ăn trộm; sự trộm cắp
	■	(từ Mỹ, nghĩa Mỹ) (thông tục) giá hời; món hời; công việc dễ dàng

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bargain, buy, slip