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What does purloin mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word purloin? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
  2. (intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.
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He broke into outhouses with an axe he managed to purloin in a wood-cutters' camp.
Probably my acquaintance, Mr Blank, therefore, would have been able, if he had so wished to do, to purloin the papers which he mentioned.
The discipline was rigorous, and all that he could purloin was a few candle-ends.
Why didn't they purloin a beer-stein, quiescent on a japanned tray?
Did I not purloin it because I was so high-minded as to want to win a game of chess from you?
Elsewhere we have to purloin a ladder to get a box down, so we can open it.

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