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# stealer

«stealer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or animal that takes things which belong to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (stealer, stealers)

### meaning for a pupil

A stealer is a person or animal that takes things which belong to someone else. (A rare word for a thief.) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales the stealer is a creature or robber that carries off food, nuts or treasure

### examples

- The fox is a nut-stealer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealer/#x1)
- A horse-stealer was caught at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealer/#x2)
- Stealers came in the night and took the grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealer/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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