Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to purloin
Participle: purloined
Gerund: purloining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | purloin |
| you | purloin |
| he;she;it | purloins |
| we | purloin |
| you | purloin |
| they | purloin |
Perfect
| I | have purloined |
| you | have purloined |
| he;she;it | has purloined |
| we | have purloined |
| you | have purloined |
| they | have purloined |
Past
| I | purloined |
| you | purloined |
| he;she;it | purloined |
| we | purloined |
| you | purloined |
| they | purloined |
Pluperfect
| I | had purloined |
| you | had purloined |
| he;she;it | had purloined |
| we | had purloined |
| you | had purloined |
| they | had purloined |
Future
| I | will purloin |
| you | will purloin |
| he;she;it | will purloin |
| we | will purloin |
| you | will purloin |
| they | will purloin |
Future Perfect
| I | will have purloined |
| you | will have purloined |
| he;she;it | will have purloined |
| we | will have purloined |
| you | will have purloined |
| they | will have purloined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | purloin |
| you | purloin |
| he;she;it | purloin |
| we | purloin |
| you | purloin |
| they | purloin |
Perfect
| I | have purloined |
| you | have purloined |
| he;she;it | have purloined |
| we | have purloined |
| you | have purloined |
| they | have purloined |
Imperfect
| I | purloined |
| you | purloined |
| he;she;it | purloined |
| we | purloined |
| you | purloined |
| they | purloined |
Pluperfect
| I | had purloined |
| you | had purloined |
| he;she;it | had purloined |
| we | had purloined |
| you | had purloined |
| they | had purloined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would purloin |
| you | would purloin |
| he;she;it | would purloin |
| we | would purloin |
| you | would purloin |
| they | would purloin |
Perfect
| I | would have purloined |
| you | would have purloined |
| he;she;it | would have purloined |
| we | would have purloined |
| you | would have purloined |
| they | would have purloined |
Imperative
| you | purloin |
| we | Let's purloin |
| you | purloin |
Verbs conjugated like 'purloin'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'purloin'
proin,
curtain,
eloin,
esloin,
groin,
parboil,
pardon,
person,
pertain,
plain,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- steal
- rob, appropriate, pilfer, rifle, abstract, shoplift, loot
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1440, "to put far away," from Anglo-Fr.
purloigner "remove," from O.Fr.
porloigner "put off, retard, delay," from
por- (from L.
pro- "forth") + O.Fr.
loing "far," from L.
longe, from
longus (see long). Sense of "to steal" (1548) is a development in Eng.
2. From Middle English purloynen (“to remove”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman purloigner (“to put far away”), one of the variants of Old French porloignier. Doublet of prolong. See: Old French '
porloignier'.
Sample Sentences
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Had from his wakeful custody purloined / The guarded gold. [1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
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Probably my acquaintance, Mr Blank, therefore, would have been able, if he had so wished to do, to purloin the papers which he mentioned. [1900, One Who Was in It, chapter 8, in Kruger's Secret Service, pages 168–169:]
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The refreshment room was full of chatter and babble, which attracted everybody's envious glances. Some one had left his set in the middle of the dance, purloined a sandwich from the buffet, and was now chewing away proudly as he swerved and stamped, to the amusement of the rest. [1916, chapter 4, in A. Cecil Curtis, transl., Royal Highness, translation of Königliche Hoheit by Thomas Mann:]
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Or was this simply another item Mr. Stink had purloined during his career as a gentleman thief? [2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:]
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The Apostle expressly forbiddeth servants to purloin (Titus 2:10). [1622, William Gouge, Of Domestical Duties, published 2006, →ISBN, page 454:]