ETYM Latin abstrahere to draw from, separate; ab, abs + trahere to draw.
1. To remove a part from a whole.
2. To consider apart from a particular case or instance.
3. To consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically.
4. To give an abstract or summary of.

ETYM French bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.
To remove the bones from (an animal); SYN. debone.

1. To make known; pass on, of information; SYN. impart.
2. To transfer or deliver to another, as of information; SYN. transmit, communicate.

1. To line with beams or planks, as of construction holes.
2. To take unauthorized (intellectual material).
3. To use a crib, as in an exam.

1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest.

To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.

To paint, as of medieval manuscripts.

To make off with belongings of others; SYN. cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift.

1. To put in one's pocket; SYN. bag.
2. To take unlawfully; SYN. bag.

1. To collect or look around for (food); SYN. forage.
2. To obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; SYN. cadge.

1. To put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner:
2. To go stealthily or furtively:; SYN. mouse, creep, steal, pussyfoot.

To look or pry especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner

(Homonym: steel).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: stole, stolen).
1. To move stealthily; SYN. slip.
2. To steal a base, in baseball.
3. To take without the owner's consent.

1. To steal and take away; to take over unexpectedly from someone else; steal
2. To win or gain especially by outdoing one's competitors without difficulty