In “steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”
When they steal things, they want to get all the bonus points.
Watch your back Liam Neeson, here comes Kevin Costner to steal your older-leading-man thunder!
Murderers tweet in Mexico; a history of Kansas City and did Picasso try to steal the Mona Lisa?
And I am able to steal back what was stolen from me as a child.
If I cannot find one, I will earn, beg or steal the money to get them printed.
I steal into his sleep, and play my part among the figures of his dreams.
It never occurred to her that the girl might have been tempted to steal—and had not resisted the temptation.
There are hundreds of them who steal because they don't get enough to eat.
Sleep did not steal upon the sisters at one and the same time.
Old English stelan "to commit a theft" (class IV strong verb; past tense stæl, past participle stolen), from Proto-Germanic *stelanan (cf. Old Saxon stelan, Old Norse, Old Frisian stela, Dutch stelen, Old High German stelan, German stehlen, Gothic stilan), of unknown origin.
Most IE words for steal have roots in notions of "hide," "carry off," or "collect, heap up." Attested as a verb of stealthy motion from c.1300 (e.g. to steal away, late 14c.); of glances, sighs, etc., from 1580s. To steal (someone) blind first recorded 1974.
"a bargain," by 1942, American English colloquial, from steal (v.). Baseball sense of "a stolen base" is from 1867.
steal (stēl)
n.
The diversion of blood flow from its normal course.
noun
A great bargain: I got that for half price, a real steal (1940s+)