Meaning & use
stealer
A person or thing that steals or takes something without permission or right.
See it in a sentence
The bakery owner installed cameras after suspecting a stealer of stealing pastries at night.
In the story, the fox is portrayed as a cunning stealer of eggs from the henhouse.
A note on using this word
Stealer is rarely used on its own in everyday speech; thief is far more common, though stealer appears in compound expressions like scene-stealer.
Words with a similar meaning
thiefrobber
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