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Word: Purloin
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
Middle English (in the sense ‘put at a distance’): from Anglo-Norman French purloigner ‘put away’, from pur- ‘forth’ + loign ‘far’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
pəːˈlɔɪn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
steal (something)
Short Definition:steal
Examples:- he must have managed to purloin a copy of the key
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