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# filch

«filch» in Mova's school dictionary: **to steal something small, usually in a sneaky way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (filch, filches, filched, filching)

### meaning for a pupil

To filch is to steal something small, usually in a sneaky way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filch/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fables a sly fox filches things such as a bit of cheese from the dairy or a chicken from a farmyard

### examples

- The fox filched the brains when the lion was not looking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filch/#x1)
- A bit of cheese was filched from the dairy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filch/#x2)
- Do not filch sweets from the jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filch/#x3)

### note

filching takes some away, so the count goes down: 8 sweets, 3 filched, leaves 5

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «filch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.