stealing (root: steal)

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: steal=ing
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

stealing, n. 

•  The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

stealing

abstraction, all fours, annexation, appropriation, blackmail, boodle, boosting, booty, burglary, conversion, conveyance, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, doggo, embezzlement, filching, fraud, furtive, graft, gumshoeing, haul, hidden out, hot goods, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, larceny, liberation, lift, lifting, loot, lurking, nightwalking, on tiptoe, padding, peculation, perks, perquisite, pickings, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, piracy, pirating, plagiarism, plagiarizing, plunder, poaching, pork barrel, prize, prowling, public till, public trough, purloining, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, pussyfooting, robbery, robbing, scrabble, scramble, scrounging, shoplifting, sidling, skulking, slinking, snaking, snatching, sneak thievery, sneaking, snitching, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, steal, stealage, stealings, stealthy, stolen goods, surreptitious, swag, swindle, swiping, take, theft, thievery, thieving, till, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, touch, under cover, waiting concealed, worming

ROGET THESAURUS

stealing

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.