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pilfer

/pil-fer/US // ˈpɪl fər //UK // (ˈpɪlfə) //

偷窃,偷盗,胠箧者流,偷窃行为

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to steal, especially in small quantities.

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Examples

  • After hacking your way through a parade of low-level enemies, and past a mini-boss, you meet the large bird that pilfered the Demonic Forest Spirit’s soul.

  • En route, they have pilfered from grain stores, scoffed mountains of corn and pineapples, and caused over $1 million of damage as they amble slowly through farmland and villages.

  • I’ve made delicious shrubs with everything from early spring rhubarb to loquats pilfered from my parents’ backyard.

  • As a teenager, Kaestel stole to eat, then to get another tank of gas, and eventually to pay for everything he’d otherwise need to pilfer piecemeal.

  • It makes sense that mole-rats would not only defend it, but try to pilfer this resource from others.

  • But Julius and his comrades continued to pilfer American secrets for years after the defeat of fascism.

  • To pay a debt by means of a worthless cheque was evidently less reprehensible than to pilfer a brooch from a dressing-table.

  • To pilfer a supper, and then have it found in its natural state, after eating it—I confess that that is a most remarkable trick!

  • Like the others of this family, they pilfer their food from the Gulls, and are also very destructive to young birds and eggs.

  • The movements of the red-haired girl were not those of one who sought to pilfer.

  • When they had pilfer'd some from her, she was more cautious how she paraded with 'em for the future.