(redirected from thieves)Thief (436) IMDb 7.4 2h 3min 1981 R James Caan plays Frank, a jewel thief and former convict who is looking to settle down with his girlfriend (Tuesday Weld, 'Who'll Stop The Rain?' ) and begin a family. But when his 'fence' is thrown from a window and the Chicago mafia begin to flex their muscles, his hopes of a quiet life become anything but. Thief is a 2014 first-person stealth video game developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix. It was released on February 25th, 2014 in North America, February 27th, 2014 in Australia and February 28th, 2014 in Europe for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. This game is marked as a reboot of the original Thief series. Garrett, the Master Thief. Examples of thief in a Sentence A thief took my purse. A thief has been stealing wallets and valuables from the lockers at the gym Recent Examples on the Web Then worth an estimated $50, he was smuggled out of Alaska to Oregon, where law enforcement tracked down the thief. — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 'How well do you know Anchorage? Exceptional cargo bundle download free. A criminal act in which property belonging to another is taken without that person's consent. The term theft is sometimes used synonymously with Larceny. Theft, however, is actually a broader term, encompassing many forms of deceitful taking of property, including swindling, Embezzlement, and False Pretenses.
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thieve
(thēv)tr. & intr.v.thieved, thiev·ing, thieves
[Perhaps from Old English thēofian, from thēof, thief.]
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thieve
(
θiːv)
vb
[Old English thēofian, from thēof thief]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
thieve
(θiv) 
v.t., v.i. thieved, thiev•ing.[before 950; Old English thēofian, derivative of theōfthief (not recorded in Middle English)]
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thieve
Past participle: thieved
Gerund: thieving
| Present |
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| I thieve |
| you thieve |
| he/she/it thieves |
| we thieve |
| you thieve |
| they thieve |
| Preterite |
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| I thieved |
| you thieved |
| he/she/it thieved |
| we thieved |
| you thieved |
| they thieved |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am thieving |
| you are thieving |
| he/she/it is thieving |
| we are thieving |
| you are thieving |
| they are thieving |
| Present Perfect |
|---|
| I have thieved |
| you have thieved |
| he/she/it has thieved |
| we have thieved |
| you have thieved |
| they have thieved |
| Past Continuous |
|---|
| I was thieving |
| you were thieving |
| he/she/it was thieving |
| we were thieving |
| you were thieving |
| they were thieving |
| Past Perfect |
|---|
| I had thieved |
| you had thieved |
| he/she/it had thieved |
| we had thieved |
| you had thieved |
| they had thieved |
| Future |
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| I will thieve |
| you will thieve |
| he/she/it will thieve |
| we will thieve |
| you will thieve |
| they will thieve |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have thieved |
| you will have thieved |
| he/she/it will have thieved |
| we will have thieved |
| you will have thieved |
| they will have thieved |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be thieving |
| you will be thieving |
| he/she/it will be thieving |
| we will be thieving |
| you will be thieving |
| they will be thieving |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been thieving |
| you have been thieving |
| he/she/it has been thieving |
| we have been thieving |
| you have been thieving |
| they have been thieving |
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| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been thieving |
| you will have been thieving |
| he/she/it will have been thieving |
| we will have been thieving |
| you will have been thieving |
| they will have been thieving |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I had been thieving |
| you had been thieving |
| he/she/it had been thieving |
| we had been thieving |
| you had been thieving |
| they had been thieving |
| Conditional |
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| I would thieve |
| you would thieve |
| he/she/it would thieve |
| we would thieve |
| you would thieve |
| they would thieve |
| Past Conditional |
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| I would have thieved |
| you would have thieved |
| he/she/it would have thieved |
| we would have thieved |
| you would have thieved |
| they would have thieved |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
| Verb | 1. | thieve - take by theft; 'Someone snitched my wallet!' cop, glom, snitch, knock off, hook steal - take without the owner's consent; 'Someone stole my wallet on the train'; 'This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation' |
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thieve
verbsteal, nick(slang, chiefly Brit.), rob, pinch(informal), poach, plunder, half-inch(old-fashioned slang), embezzle, blag(slang), pilfer, snitch(slang), purloin, filch, have sticky fingers(informal), peculateThese people can't help thieving.steal
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
thieve
verbTo take (another's property) without permission:
Informal: lift, swipe.
Slang: cop, heist, hook, nip, pinch, rip off, snitch.
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krást
stela
thieve
[θiːv]VT, VI →
robar, hurtarCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
thieve
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
thief
(
θiːv)
– plural thieves (θiːvs) – Thief Simulator
noun a person who steals. The thief got away with all my money. dief لِص крадец ladrão zloděj, -ka der/die Dieb(in) tyv κλέφτηςladrón varas دزد varas voleur/-euse גנב चोर lopov, kradljivac tolvaj pencuri þjófur ladro どろ棒 도둑 vagis zaglis pencuri dieftyvzłodziejladrão hoţ вор zlodej, -ka tat lopov tjuv ขโมย hırsız 小偷 злодій چور kẻ trộm, kẻ cắp 小偷
thieve (
θiːf)
Thief Game
verb to steal. He is always thieving my pencils. steel يَسْرُق крада roubar krást stehlen stjæle κλέβωrobar varastama دزدیدن varastaa voler לִגנוֹב चुराना krasti (el)lop mencuri stela rubare 盗む 훔치다 vogti zagt mencuri stelenstjele, knabbe, rappekraśćroubar a fura красть kradnúť krasti ukrasti stjäla ขโมย çalmak 偷竊 красти چوري کرنا ăn trộm, ăn cắp 偷窃
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