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steal

Nouns

• (n) an advantageous purchase
  • she got a bargain at the auction
  • the stock was a real buy at that price
  buy, bargain,
• (n) a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

Verbs

• (v) take without the owner's consent
  • Someone stole my wallet on the train
  • This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation
• (v) move stealthily
  • The ship slipped away in the darkness
  slip,
• (v) steal a base

Synonyms

buy bargain slip

See also

slip away sneak away sneak off sneak out steal away elapse glide by go by slide by slip by go along pass lapse

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