stole

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Assuming that the amounts which he converted aka stole were around $20,000,000,000, that is a lot to 'vanish' over even 28 years.

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  1. noun Ecclesiastical A long scarf, usually of embroidered silk or linen, worn over the left shoulder by deacons and over both shoulders by priests and bishops while officiating.
  2. noun A woman's long scarf of cloth or fur worn about the shoulders.
  3. noun A long robe or outer garment worn by matrons in ancient Rome.

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  • The few ones she had they stole, and then because she had no more they stole her watchmaker's tools, and swept all the spectacles and glasses and watches on to the floor and stamped them to powder There is really little more to relate about our time at Dranoutre and neighbourhood. —  The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
  • Several persons admired his books--nothing was less contestable; but they appeared to have a mortal objection to acquiring them by subscription or by purchase: they begged or borrowed or stole, they delegated one of the party perhaps to commit the volumes to memory and repeat them, like the bards of old, to listening multitudes. —  Embarrassments
  • What might be called a writhing expression stole over him. —  The Confidence-Man
  • They were freshmen themselves last year, and if the examinations were as bad as they say, they wouldn't have passed them, either A relieved expression stole over the three faces You're such a comfort, Patty. —  When Patty Went to College
  • The only thing he ever stole was the time he should have spent in working. —  Children of the Tenements
 

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stole:   Steal ·  steal ·  stealing ·  Stealing ·  stolen ·  steals
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English, from Latin stola, garment, robe, from Greek stolē; see stel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English stole, stoole, from Old French estole, French étole = Spanish Portuguese estola = Italian stola, from Latin stola, a stola, robe, stole, from Greek στολή, a long robe; orig., in a genitive sense, dress, equipment, sacerdotal vestment or vestments; from στέλλειν, set, array, despatch: see stell.
 

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