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thieve

verb

To commit theft.

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"thieve" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb meaning to commit theft or steal something. Example sentence: The thief thieved his way into the museum after hours.

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"Politicians may thieve and do things bold-face," says one black voter with a small business, "but I have a UNC party card.

It has a recognisable (and occasionally mis-recognised) flag, a national "anthem", an army, or at least a bunch of terrorists and murderers, and the ability to levy taxation (as well as thieve and plunder).

The motherbirds thieve the air To appease them.

A car thieve in Salt Lake City stripped a man's car of fog lights, mirror, etc., but left the tires.

REPORTER AT LARGE' Two major gangs which thieve along the wharves: the Dooleys, who call West St. & its adjacent water their territory, and the Chicken Yard Gang which operates near Hoboken where the live poultry for N.Y.C. is concentrated for movement.

St. Augustine confessed he "lusted to thieve," and found it as tantalizing as sex.

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As long as the owner doesn't realise what's going on, car thieves then have potentially a field of open cars to plunder.

I give the name violence to a noble boldness that hankers for danger, and I have seen it in many of the pimps and thieves I have worked with, men whose authority and beatific treachery bent me to their will.

One box holder said a security guard had told him that the thieves "didn't break in through the vault door, but got in through the wall next to the vault door".

It was impossible to estimate how much the thieves had got away with and the stolen goods would include family heirlooms and personal jewellery as well as stock from gem, diamond and pearl dealers, he said.

It introduced its strict version of Islamic law, including amputations for alleged thieves.

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