Definition of "thieve" [thieve]

• To take (something) by theft or commit theft. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Disdain for people who do not educate their children and send them to the streets to beg and thieve is understandable."
• "And its name sounds like a bizarre slang version of the word "thieve" (A Pheve)?"
• "I think claustrophobic inspector hit it spot on about being dressed in his best trackies, shitty old jumper and probably the ebst lizzie duke rings he could muster or thieve."