Stealing

n.	1.	The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.
	2.	That which is stolen; stolen property; - chiefly used in the plural.

Noun	1.	stealing - the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving
	2.	stealing - avoiding detection by moving carefully Synonyms: stealth

STEALING. This term imports, ex vi termini, nearly the same as larceny; but in common parlance, it does not always import a felony; as, for example, you stole an acre of my land.
     2. In slander cases, it seems that the term stealing takes its complexion from the subject-matter to which it is applied, and will be considered as intended of a felonious stealing, if a felony could have been committed of such subject-matter. Stark. on Slan. 80; 12 Johns. Rep. 239; 3 Binn. R. 546; Whart. Dig. tit. Slander.

To dream that you are stealing, denotes that you are deprived and where the stealing takes place (at home, the office, at school....) is indicative of your neediness. Alternatively, it may signify unrealized and unfulfilled goals. You may have set your goals too high.abstraction, all fours, annexation, appropriation, blackmail, boodle, boosting, booty, burglary, conversion, conveyance, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, doggo, embezzlement, filching, fraud, furtive, graft, gumshoeing, haul, hidden out, hot goods, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, larceny, liberation, lift, lifting, loot, lurking, nightwalking, on tiptoe, padding, peculation, perks, perquisite, pickings, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, piracy, pirating, plagiarism, plagiarizing, plunder, poaching, pork barrel, prize, prowling, public till, public trough, purloining, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, pussyfooting, robbery, robbing, scrabble, scramble, scrounging, shoplifting, sidling, skulking, slinking, snaking, snatching, sneak thievery, sneaking, snitching, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, steal, stealage, stealings, stealthy, stolen goods, surreptitious, swag, swindle, swiping, take, theft, thievery, thieving, till, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, touch, under cover, waiting concealed, worming

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