filch
verb (used with object)
to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer.
is filching
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present progressiveof filch (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If any one lends help or advice to a wife who is filching the property of her husband, he shall be held for theft.
From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene Arthur Hecker
It carries duties with it, duties which are imperative and which to shirk is filching benefits without rendering an equivalent.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
“Wake, Glaucon; quit your golden thoughts of Eleusis; Lycon is filching the crown.”
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
