To take feloniously; take and carry off clandestinely, and without right or leave; appropriate to one's own uses dishonestly, or without right, permission, or authority: as applied to persons, to kidnap; abduct: as, to steal some one's purse; to steal cattle; to steal a child.To remove, withdraw, or abstract secretly or stealthily.To smuggle, literally or figuratively.To take or assume without right.To obtain surreptitiously, or by stealth or surprise: as, to steal a kiss.To entice or win by insidious arts or secret means.To perform, procure, or effect in a stealthy or underhand way; perform secretly; conceal the doing, performance, or accomplishment of.To move furtively and slyly: as, she stole her hand into his.In base-ball, to secure, as a base or run, without an error by one's opponents or a base-hit by the batter; to run successfully to, as from one base to the next, in spite of the efforts of one's opponents: as, to steal second base: sometimes used intransitively with to: as, to steal to second base.In netting, to take away (a mesh) by netting into two meshes of the preceding row at once.Synonyms To filch, pilfer, purloin, embezzle. See pillage, n.To practise or be guilty of theft.To move stealthily or secretly; creep softly; pass, approach, or withdraw surreptitiously and unperceived; go or come furtively; slip or creep along insidiously, silently, or unperceived; make insinuating approach: as, to Steal into the house at dusk; the fox stole away: sometimes used reflexively.n. An act or a case of: theft: as, an official steal; specifically, in baseball. a stolen or furtive run from one base to another: as, a steal to third base. See steal, transitive verb, 9.n. Same as stale.In cricket, to gain (a run) and increase the score because of the slowness of the fielders: said of the batsman.In golf, to hole (a long, unlikely putt) so that the ball just drops into the hole.n. In golf, a long putt which wins a hole.