Found 4 hits - Term: purloin, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
purloin \purloin"\, v. t. imp. p. p. purloined; p. pr.
vb. n. purloining. of. purloignier, porloignier, to
retard, delay; pur, por, pour, for l. pro + loin far, far
off l. longe. see prolong, and cf. eloign.
to take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to
take by theft; to filch.
1913 webster
had from his wakeful custody purloined
the guarded gold. --milton.
1913 webster
when did the muse from fletcher scenes purloin ?
--dryden.
1913 webster
see also:
purloined purloining prolong eloign
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
purloin \purloin"\, v. i.
to practice theft; to steal. --titus ii. 10.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
purloin
v : make off with belongings of others syn: pilfer, cabbage,
pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak,
filch, nobble, lift
see also:
pilfer cabbage pinch abstract snarf swipe
hook sneak filch nobble lift
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 moby thesaurus words for "purloin":
abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, cabbage,
cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, filch, hook, lift,
make off with, nip, palm, pilfer, pinch, poach, run away with,
rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle,
swipe, take, thieve, walk off with
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