Need another word that means the same as “stolen”? Find 30 related words for “stolen” in this overview.
brigand | An armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band. |
burglar | A person who commits burglary. |
burglary | Illegal entry of a building with intent to commit a crime, especially theft. A two year sentence for burglary. |
burgle | Enter (a building) illegally with intent to commit a crime, especially theft. Our house in London has been burgled. |
confiscate | Take or seize (someone’s property) with authority. The guards confiscated his camera. |
deprive | Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining. The Archbishop deprived a considerable number of puritan clergymen. |
despoil | Steal goods; take as spoils. The church was despoiled of its marble wall covering. |
filch | Make off with belongings of others. They filched milk off morning doorsteps. |
interloper | A person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong. To her I was always an outsider an interloper. |
larceny | Theft of personal property In English law larceny was replaced as a statutory crime by theft in 1968. |
loot | Steal (goods) in a war, riot, etc. During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners. |
pillage | Goods or money obtained illegally. Rebellious peasants intent on pillage. |
piracy | A practice similar to piracy but in other contexts especially hijacking. Software piracy. |
plunder | Plunder a town after capture. We shall plunder related sciences to assist our research. |
rapine | The act of despoiling a country in warfare. Industrial rapine. |
recidivist | Relating to recidivists. The third lowest recidivist rate in the country. |
rob | Rip off; ask an unreasonable price. Poor health has robbed her of a normal social life. |
robber | A person who commits robbery. |
robbery | Plundering during riots or in wartime. An armed robbery. |
rustler | A person who rounds up and steals cattle, horses, or sheep. Police have so far arrested 649 rustlers countrywide. |
shoplift | Steal goods from a shop while pretending to be a customer. He was spotted shoplifting at the supermarket near his home. |
shoplifting | The act of stealing goods that are on display in a store. Shrinkage is the retail trade s euphemism for shoplifting. |
theft | The action or crime of stealing. The latest theft happened at a garage. |
thief | A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it. The thief stole the drugs from a doctor s surgery. |
thieve | Be a thief; steal something. The students have been thieving my favourite art books. |
thievery | The action of stealing another person’s property. Petty thievery. |
transgression | The spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata. I ll be keeping an eye out for further transgressions. |
usurp | Encroach or infringe upon (someone’s rights. The Hanoverian dynasty had usurped the Stuarts. |
vagrancy | The state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood. A descent into vagrancy and drug abuse. |
waylay | Stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way. He waylaid me on the stairs. |
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