purloin

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: pur=loin

CIDE DICTIONARY

purloin, v. t. [OF. purloignier, porloignier, to retard, delay; pur, por, pour, for (L. pro) + loin far, far off (L. longe). See Prolong, and cf. Eloign.].

 To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.  [1913 Webster]
"Had from his wakeful custody purloined
The guarded gold."  [1913 Webster]
"when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin ?"  [1913 Webster]

purloin, v. i. 

 To practice theft; to steal.  Titus ii. 10.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

purloin, v.tr. formal or joc. steal, pilfer.

Derivative

purloiner n.

Etymology

ME f. AF purloigner put away, do away with (as PUR-, loign far f. L longe)

THESAURUS

purloin

abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, cabbage, cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, filch, hook, lift, make off with, nip, palm, pilfer, pinch, poach, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, walk off with

ROGET THESAURUS

purloin

Stealing

VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.