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What is the verb for thief?

What's the verb for thief? Here's the word you're looking for.

thieving
thieve
  1. (intransitive) To commit theft.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Most of them thieve when they have an opportunity, and this you will have to guard against.”
      “But, to thieve a time-worn phrase, there are probably as many answers to the second question as there are economists.”
      “Left on the streets all day and scorned would you not become depressed, paranoid, turn to drink or drugs or thieve for a living?”
thiefed
  1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of thief, meaning to steal.
thieves
thieved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of thieve
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The cotravellers came to the thieved one and expressed their sorrow in many ways.”
      “I spied, thieved and assassinated for the good of the kingdom.”
      “I'm not saying she would have thieved people's pensions, but he had a method of doing business like a benign dictator that to me seemed very normal.”
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