Purloin

Definition of Purloin

Pur`loin´

v. t.	1.	To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. [imp. & p. p. Purloined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Purloining.] Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. - Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin ? - Dryden.
v. i.	1.	To practice theft; to steal.

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abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, cabbage, cop, crib, defraud, extort, filch, hook, lift, make off with, nip, palm, pinch, poach, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, walk off with

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