Wednesday 10 July 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Purloin

pur-loin



verb :: To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.



verb :: To practice theft; to steal.



"He broke into outhouses with an axe he managed to purloin in a wood-cutters' camp." --Conrad, Joseph

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