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Definition of thieve in English: thieveverb θiːvθiv [no object]Be a thief; steal something. 做贼；盗窃 they began thieving again 他们又开始偷窃了。 with object the students have been thieving my favourite art books 这些学生一直在偷我最喜欢的美术书。 Example sentencesExamples - Another day, another email scam with fraudsters trying to extract sensitive information so they can thieve from people's bank accounts.
- That's tantamount to thieving from your employers, that is!
- Talking to many fishery owners over the years, it seems the biggest problem they face is fish thieving.
- A shoplifter went prepared for thieving with a specially adapted carrier bag designed to stop alarms going off.
- This series follows a group of gang members as they fight their mortal enemies and seek out a living on the streets by selling drugs and thieving.
- ‘I've been here about five or six months, and I haven't thieved since I've been in York,’ he says.
- I'd suggest this was when he started thieving from temples.
- If someone prospers by thieving or cheating, his prosperity is likely to turn to ashes.
- Left on the streets all day and scorned would you not become depressed, paranoid, turn to drink or drugs or thieve for a living?
- When I ran out of money I ended up borrowing and then thieving.
- With her drinking and thieving, his mother proved a lifelong source of embarrassment.
- We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores.
- Many take sport in killing for the sake of killing, thieving for the sake of theft, even if they do not need or use the spoils.
- We must be on our guard against their slick, thieving ways
- That's when I got into crime - thieving from cars and doing burglaries.
- We want crime rates to drop and steps to be taken to convince young criminals that there is an alternative to thieving and breaking the law.
- I started going out thieving and burgling - anything I could to feed my habit.
- I spied, thieved and assassinated for the good of the kingdom.
- And Sammy, a shopkeeper, decides to combat thieving tearaways with retaliatory violence.
- And the government bureaucracy is riddled with corruption, thieving, lying and wastefulness.
Synonyms theft, stealing, thievery, robbery, larceny, pilfering, pilferage burglary, shoplifting, looting misappropriation, expropriation, embezzlement rare peculation, defalcation light-fingered, thievish, larcenous dishonest informal sticky-fingered, nimble-fingered, crooked, bent rare furacious, kleptic, theftuous
OriginOld English thēofian, from thēof 'thief'. Transitive uses began in the late 17th century. Rhymesachieve, believe, breve, cleave, conceive, deceive, eve, greave, grieve, heave, interleave, interweave, khedive, leave, misconceive, naive, Neve, peeve, perceive, reave, receive, reive, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sheave, sleeve, steeve, Steve, Tananarive, Tel Aviv, underachieve, upheave, weave, we've, Yves Definition of thieve in US English: thieveverbθivTHēv [no object]Be a thief; steal something. 做贼；盗窃 they began thieving again 他们又开始偷窃了。 get lost, you thieving swine 走开，你这手脚不干净的下流坯。 Example sentencesExamples - I spied, thieved and assassinated for the good of the kingdom.
- I'd suggest this was when he started thieving from temples.
- Left on the streets all day and scorned would you not become depressed, paranoid, turn to drink or drugs or thieve for a living?
- I started going out thieving and burgling - anything I could to feed my habit.
- Another day, another email scam with fraudsters trying to extract sensitive information so they can thieve from people's bank accounts.
- We want crime rates to drop and steps to be taken to convince young criminals that there is an alternative to thieving and breaking the law.
- A shoplifter went prepared for thieving with a specially adapted carrier bag designed to stop alarms going off.
- That's when I got into crime - thieving from cars and doing burglaries.
- When I ran out of money I ended up borrowing and then thieving.
- Many take sport in killing for the sake of killing, thieving for the sake of theft, even if they do not need or use the spoils.
- We must be on our guard against their slick, thieving ways
- That's tantamount to thieving from your employers, that is!
- With her drinking and thieving, his mother proved a lifelong source of embarrassment.
- ‘I've been here about five or six months, and I haven't thieved since I've been in York,’ he says.
- We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores.
- If someone prospers by thieving or cheating, his prosperity is likely to turn to ashes.
- This series follows a group of gang members as they fight their mortal enemies and seek out a living on the streets by selling drugs and thieving.
- Talking to many fishery owners over the years, it seems the biggest problem they face is fish thieving.
- And the government bureaucracy is riddled with corruption, thieving, lying and wastefulness.
- And Sammy, a shopkeeper, decides to combat thieving tearaways with retaliatory violence.
Synonyms purloin, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, loot, pilfer, abscond with, run off with, appropriate, abstract, carry off, shoplift steal, purloin, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, loot, pilfer, abscond with, run off with, appropriate, abstract, carry off, shoplift light-fingered, thievish, larcenous theft, stealing, thievery, robbery, larceny, pilfering, pilferage
OriginOld English thēofian, from thēof ‘thief’. Transitive uses began in the late 17th century. |