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thieve

/theev/US // θiv //UK // (θiːv) //

盗贼,胠箧者流,窃贼,盗窃者

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    thieved, thiev·ing.

    • : to take by theft; steal.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    thieved, thiev·ing.

    • : to act as a thief; commit theft; steal.

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Examples

  • Not until Ed O’Bannon won his judgment in court and pried back his name-image-likeness rights did the NCAA stop thieving from students.

  • Observe thief, but thieves and to thieve; loaf, but loaves; shelf, but shelves and to shelve.

  • I had not been with them twelve hours, before old Fulcher told me that I must thieve as well as the rest.

  • The father quietly observed, “I never knew the dog to thieve before.”

  • I havent the slightest doubt that I would thieve again at the earliest opportunity.

  • Here, as at most places, the natives of inferior rank showed a disposition to thieve.