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FILCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filch mean? 

FILCH (verb)
  The verb FILCH has 1 sense:

1. make off with belongings of othersplay

  Familiarity information: FILCH used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FILCH (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they filch  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it filches  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: filched  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: filched  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: filching  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make off with belongings of others

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; lift; nobble; pilfer; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; swipe

Hypernyms (to "filch" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They filch the goods


 Context examples 


But tell me, dear coz, what shall we do next, when we have driven this bastard Henry from the kingdom which he hath filched?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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