📚 Purloin, verb. 🔉 /pəːˈlɔɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal, humorous • with object): Steal (something) ❗️ Examples: 1. He must have managed to purloin a copy of the key. 2. Their images are purloined, confiscated, appropriated, stolen. 3. Were old trees being purloined, appropriated wrongfully, when they were sectioned by scientists? 4. Bits of our constitution were actually purloined from the United States Constitution. 5. I'm not saying people should go around purloining things, but the bottom line is, it isn't murder. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic