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Steal

/stiːl/
To take something that does not belong to you without permission, intending to keep it.

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Examples:

Arthur Gride had the papers, but his housekeeper has stolen them.

"I have no intention of stealing your men.

Apparently, someone stole his data-pad."

Etymology:

etymology
From Old English stelan, meaning to commit theft, with roots in Proto-Germanic stelana; related to the German stehlen and Dutch stelen.

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