steal

1. 1.

   an advantageous purchase

   “she got a bargain at the auction”

   “the stock was a real buy at that price”

   Synonymsbargainbuy

   Broaderpurchase

   Narrowersongtravel bargain
2. 2.

   a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

   Broaderbaseball

Other forms of steal

plural

steals·

past tense or participle

stole

past tense or participle

stolen

present participle

stealing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about steal

What does steal mean?

steal means "take without the owner's consent". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in steal?

steal has 1 syllable: steal. In IPA it is /ˈstil/.

What is another word for steal?

Close synonyms include rip off, rip, slip, bargain, buy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is steal a common word?

steal is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with steal?

2 words rhyme with steal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.