Steal

Definition

steal /sti:l/ v ( pt stole /stǝƱl /; pp stolen /'stǝƱlǝn/) ၁။ ~ (sth) (from sb/sth) ခိုးသည္။ It's wrong to steal. ❍ He stole from the rich to give to the poor. ❍ Someone has stolen my watch. ❍ I have had my watch stolen. ❍ steal sb's ideas. ❍ She was arrested for receiving stolen goods. ❍ He stole a towel from the hotel. ❍ ROB ၂။ တိတ္တခိုးလုပ္သည္။ stolen kisses in shop doorways ❍ steal a glance at oneself in the mirror. ၃။ ခြၽတ္နင္းသည္။ He stole into the room. ❍ She stole up on me in the darkness. ❍ The morning light was stealing through the shutters. ❍ PROWL n [sing] ( infml esp US ) အလကားပဲတင္း။ Ladies and gentlemen, it's a steal at only $ 50. ❏ steal a march (on sb) [ IDM ] ေျခပုန္းခုတ္သည္။ ❏ steal the show [ IDM ] မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားသူက ပြဲအက်ဆံုး ျဖစ္ေအာင္ တင္ဆက္သြားသည္။ Despite fine acting by several well-known stars it was a young newcomer who stole the show. ❏ steal sb's thunder [ IDM ] သူကအစြမ္းျပရန္ျပင္ဆဲကိုယ္ကျဖတ္၍ ပိုအစြမ္းထက္ ျပလိုက္သည္။

Examples

1. They were jailed for three years for stealing cars.
2. [steal from] : Johnny was accused of stealing from the shop.
3. [steal something from someone/something] : She was caught stealing food from the supermarket.
4. [steal across/into/up] : While Sara wasn’t looking
5. I stole across the hall to make a call.
6. [steal over/through/into] : I felt a warm deep pleasure steal over me.
7. [steal over/across/into] : A grim expression stole over his face.
8. Cobb was famous for stealing second base.