thieve out

verb

to walk out of a place stealthily

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Meanings

verbthieve out (third-person singular simple present thieves out, present participle thieving out, simple past and past participle thieved out)

present singular third person thieves out · participle present thieving out · participle past thieved out · past thieved out

  1. to walk out of a place stealthily

    But Kezia thieved out at the back.

    1922 Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354-355)
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