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filched

/filch/US // fɪltʃ //UK // (fɪltʃ) //

归档,锉刀,归档的,锉过的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to steal; pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.

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Examples

  • DarkSide’s site on the dark web identified dozens of victims and described the confidential data it claimed to have filched from them.

  • One evening, while filching food from an art-gallery buffet table, he’s accosted by a frosty, willowy blond, her hair marshalled into aggressive mermaid waves.

  • For Nixon, it was the Watergate break-in, designed to filch political plans of his 1972 foes.

  • Come, Filch, you shall go with me into my own Room, and tell me the whole Story.

  • Is it reasonable to suppose that a girl who could slyly filch my property would put it where it could be found?

  • There are two great risks in reading sermon books—a tendency to imitate the style and a temptation to filch the jewels.

  • In his eagerness and greed he suspected nothing, but that on some pretext or other they were trying to filch from him his dues.

  • And she is to be allowed to filch it, as other widows filch china cups, and a silver teaspoon or two!