meaning of steal
1. A handle; a stale, or stele.
2. To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
3. To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
4. To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
5. To get into ones power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
6. To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
7. To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
8. To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
9. a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch
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