purloined
past simple and past participle ofpurloin
| 单词 | purloined |
| 释义 | purloined past simple and past participle ofpurloin purloin verb[T] formalorhumorousuk/pəˈlɔɪn/us/pɚˈlɔɪn/tostealsomething: I was using apenthat I'd purloinedfromtheoffice. Synonyms filchinformal lift(STEAL) nick(STEAL)UKinformal pilfer pinch snarfinformal steal(TAKE) swipe(STEAL)informal Stealing
Examplesofpurloinedpurloined In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He was also to play two parts, one open, one very much behind the scenes, in the tale of thepurloinedletters. From theCambridge English Corpus What mattered was the composers' confidence that, wherever they derived their inspiration, whatever theypurloinedand treated as their 'heritage', they could assimilate it and make it their own. From theCambridge English Corpus All that stuff about the famous "purloineddocument" is an example. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Quite cheekily, theypurloined£3 to £4 billion of water assets from local authorities without any compensation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They have beenpurloinedfor the benefit of councillors and their families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I hadpurloinedit from someone's five small cigarette packet that we had in those days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Will it be on the basis of the document, the so-calledpurloineddocument? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The academics, if it is academics who wrote the report, have ratherpurloinedthe word "detriment" as being a pure economic term. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There was the famouspurloineddocument, which was published in goodness knows how many journals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Paradoxically, its income, which comes from oil, is increasing, but none of it reaches the inhabitants, being entirelypurloinedby the ruling classes. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English There is widespread concern about leaked orpurloineddocuments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I regret to say that the document was somehowpurloined, although we tried to keep it to ourselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have been only too happy to have seen my ideaspurloined. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They have felt that their stocks had beenpurloinedby those fishermen not subject to the same restrictions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Here again there is a real danger—and this is part of the security aspect—that some of these postal votes may bepurloinedor stolen, or the carrier may be menaced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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