Synonyms for stealing
steal·ing

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1. larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealingnoun

   the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

   "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"

   Synonyms:
   thievery, larceny, thieving, stealth, theft

2. stealth, stealingnoun

   avoiding detection by moving carefully

   Synonyms:
   thievery, thieving, larceny, stealth, theft

Matched Categories

1. • Concealment

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. embezzling

   take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.

   thieves stole her bicycle.

   Submitted by JP03 on October 7, 2015  

2. robbing

   to rob or take something off somebody or something

   she was caught stealing food at the la county fair last week.

   Submitted by Artemis on June 28, 2017  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stealingnoun

   Synonyms:
   theft, robbery, larceny

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stealingnoun

   Synonyms:
   theft, larceny, robbery, pilfering, peculation, thievery, abstraction, looting, cribbing, rapine, depredation, surreption, piracy, plundering, pillage, embezzlement, peculation, shop lifting, plagiarism

   Associated words:
   light-fingered, booty, spoil, plunder, loot, swag, spoils, predatory, fence, kleptomania

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "stealing":

   steal, fly, theft, vol, flying, robbing, rob, flight, robbery, stolen

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How to use stealing in a sentence?

1. Clifford V. Villalon:

   Long time ago, there is a known gentleman named Robin Hood being chased because of stealing for a good cause. There is no more 'Robin Hoods' at the present time, but the good cause is still chasing for gentlemen to come out.

2. Wasserman Schultz:

   Any opportunity they can to pull people’s eyes and ears away from that they take, the right-wing media circus fringe has immediately focused not on this run-of-the-mill investigation just reporting the facts, but jumped to outrageous egregious conclusions that they were trying to, that they have ties to terrorists and that they were stealing data.

3. Deadria Farmer-Paellmann:

   These are corporations that benefited from stealing people, from stealing labor, from forced breeding, from torture, from committing numerous horrendous acts, and there's no reason why they should be able to hold onto assets they acquired through such horrendous acts.

4. Barack Obama:

   This will probably be one of the biggest topics I discuss with President Xi, we have repeatedly said to the Chinese government that we understand traditional intelligence-gathering functions that all states, including us, engage in. ... That is fundamentally different from your government or its proxies engaging directly in industrial espionage and stealing trade secrets, stealing proprietary information from companies. That we consider an act of aggression that has to stop.

5. Ashley Theophane:

   You might have Floyd's backing but at the same time Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s not going to win the fight for you. And if Floyd Mayweather Jr. is ringside, the opponents fight even harder because they think if they win they might get on to The Money Team, so the pressure's on, floyd Mayweather Jr.'s at ringside shouting out,' Do this ! I like that ! You're stealing my moves Ash !' The first time I had Floyd Mayweather Jr. ringside I was nervous because I could hear the man's voice and my cut man was passing on messages from Floyd Mayweather Jr. to me.