hurtar

v.

to steal.

Ellos roban dinero They steal money.

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hurtar

► verbo transitivo

1 (robar) to steal, pilfer

2 (no dar el peso) to cheat on the weight

3 figurado (desviar) to dodge

4 figurado (plagiar) to plagiarize

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verb

to steal

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1. VT

1) (=robar) to steal

pretenden hurtar al país las elecciones — they are trying to deprive the country of (the chance of holding) elections

2)

hurtar el cuerpo — to dodge, move out of the way

3) [mar, río] to eat away, erode

4) (=plagiar) to plagiarize, pinch *, lift *

2.

See:

hurtarse

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verbo transitivo (frml) to purloin (frml), to steal

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= purloin, thieve, pilfer, filch, heist, rifle.

Ex. Due to this fortunate circumstance, a thief who had been systematically purloining rare books from the Library was apprehended.

Ex. But it was no less misguided than the commonplace practice of setting passages thieved from literature for comprehension exercises.

Ex. In his work, Al pilfers fragments from a wide array of sources and glues them into collages.

Ex. Even in poems written directly out of his own experience, he is likely to use notions, phrases, and musical ideas filched from other recent poems.

Ex. This can vary, however, as sometimes banks are robbed and armored cars heisted to forward their causes, but this was not Kahl's way of doing things.

Ex. English, on the other hand, has been accused of waylaying other languages in dark alleys and rifling their pockets for loose vocabulary.

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* hurtar en una tienda = shoplift.

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verbo transitivo (frml) to purloin (frml), to steal

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= purloin, thieve, pilfer, filch, heist, rifle.

Ex: Due to this fortunate circumstance, a thief who had been systematically purloining rare books from the Library was apprehended.

Ex: But it was no less misguided than the commonplace practice of setting passages thieved from literature for comprehension exercises.

Ex: In his work, Al pilfers fragments from a wide array of sources and glues them into collages.

Ex: Even in poems written directly out of his own experience, he is likely to use notions, phrases, and musical ideas filched from other recent poems.

Ex: This can vary, however, as sometimes banks are robbed and armored cars heisted to forward their causes, but this was not Kahl's way of doing things.

Ex: English, on the other hand, has been accused of waylaying other languages in dark alleys and rifling their pockets for loose vocabulary.

* hurtar en una tienda = shoplift.

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hurtar [A1 ]

vt

1 (robar) (frml); to purloin (frml), to steal, to make off with cuerpo

2 (en tienda) to shoplift

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hurtar (conjugate hurtar) verbo transitivo (frml) to purloin (frml), to steal
hurtar verbo transitivo to steal, pilfer
'hurtar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
afanar
- cepillar
- soplar
- sustraer
English:
pilfer

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hurtar

♦ vt

[robar] to steal

♦ See also the pronominal verb hurtarse

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hurtar

v/t steal

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hurtar vt

robar: to steal