rifle 'steal goods; take as spoils' peculate 'appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use' loot 'steal goods; take as spoils' plunder 'steal goods; take as spoils' cabbage 'make off with belongings of others' ransack 'steal goods; take as spoils' sneak 'make off with belongings of others' plagiarize 'take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property' reave 'steal goods; take as spoils' defalcate 'appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use' embezzle 'appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use' snarf 'make off with belongings of others' filch 'make off with belongings of others' lift 'take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property' pillage 'steal goods; take as spoils' pinch 'make off with belongings of others' nobble 'make off with belongings of others' pilfer 'make off with belongings of others' rustle 'take illegally' strip 'steal goods; take as spoils' purloin 'make off with belongings of others' lift 'take illegally' despoil 'steal goods; take as spoils' plagiarise 'take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property' foray 'steal goods; take as spoils' rob 'take something away by force or without the consent of the owner' malversate 'appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use' misappropriate 'appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use' swipe 'make off with belongings of others' hook 'make off with belongings of others' shoplift 'steal in a store' abstract 'make off with belongings of others' lift 'make off with belongings of others'
steal 'COD: take (something) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.' embezzle 'COD: steal or misapproriate (money placed in one's trust or under one's control).' swipe 'COD: steal.' lift 'COD: (informal) steal.' pinch 'COD: (informal) steal.' snitch 'FN: to take something (usually of little value) away illegally.' nick 'COD: (informal) steal' snatch 'COD: steal or kidnap by seizing suddenly' misappropriate 'COD: dishonestly or unfairly take for one's own use.' filch 'FN: to take something (esp. of little value) in a furtive manner.' purloin 'FN: to steal, often in violation of trust' thieve 'COD: steal things.' shoplift 'FN: to steal goods from a store while pretending to be a customer.' pilfer 'COD: steal (things of little value).'
During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family rustle cattle The burglars robbed him of all his money
Examples from VerbNet
The thief stole the painting from John for Mary. The thief stole Mary some paint. The thief stole the painting from the museum. The thief stole the painting. The thief stole the painting for Mary.
Examples from SemCor
Hastening to the attic, the temperature of_which was easily hotter than the Gold_Coast, you proceeded to mask the windows with a fancy wool coverlet, some khaki pants, and the_like, and to ransack the innumerable boxes and barrels stored there. Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro 's right_hand man, Che_Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic_and_Social_council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United_States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela. Above_all, disabuse yourselves of any thought that I propose to vent moral indignation at your rifling my residence, to whimper over the loss of a_few objets_d'art, or to shame you into rectitude. Drawers and cabinets in two bedrooms and a sewing_room were ransacked. Thieves yesterday ransacked a home in the Garden_Hills section of Cranston and stole an estimated$ 3675 worth of furs, jewels, foreign coins and American dollars. A thug struck a cab driver in the face with a pistol last night after robbing him of$ 18 at Franklin and Mount streets. `` God's_name, what are you to rob the dead with the fight going_on''! Buaford_Robinson, 23, of 7026 Stewartav., a CTA bus_driver, was slugged and robbed last night by a group of youths at 51 st street and South_Park way. The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field_glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper_Laramie country in a single week. An inmate, a former university professor, expounded to us, logically and clearly, that someone was pilfering his thoughts. Curtis_Allen_Huff, 41, of 1630 Lakeav., Wilmette, was arrested yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling an undetermined amount_of_money from the First_Federal Savings_and_Loan_association, 1 S._Dearborn_st., where he formerly was employed as an attorney. During the following week, six tons of hay belonging to one rancher were burned; some buildings, farm tools, two horses, plows, and hay owned by Bonito_Lavato, a friendly interpreter for the company, and Pedro_Chavez' hay were stolen or destroyed; and a store was broken into and robbed. Whether the pair of Sudanese ivory carvings you lifted really possess the juju to turn your livers to lead, as a dealer in Khartoum assured me, I am not competent to say. It is, I am reliably given to understand, the technical argot for those who engage in your particular branch of the boost; i.e., burglars who rob while the tenants are absent, in contrast to hot slough prowlers, those who work while the occupants are home. The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian_Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of`` Soak the rich'! The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who 'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow. From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade handled magnifying_glass. To win her favors, her husband first took an additional job, then desperately began to embezzle from his employer. First he thought_of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.