[ UK /fˈɪlt‍ʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪɫtʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. make off with belongings of others
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How To Use filch In A Sentence

  • Both major candidates are filching each others’ rhetoric and pandering.
  • The Little Shop of Horrors had filched it from LOC, despite the LOC inventory sticker on the bottom. Rogue Oracle
  • Les Synonyms: dérober = to purloin chiper = to swipe, filch piquer = to pinch, to nick Tourism
  • For those who "fleeced" a young man, and induced him to filch from his employers vast sums of money, until, in his agony, he came to an officer of the church, and frantically asked what he should do -- nothing! The Abominations of Modern Society
  • Who's filched my pencil?
  • Although the Princeton official's motives were not revealed, the break-in was thought to be an academic Watergate, an illicit attempt to filch information on what the competition was up to.
  • All it takes is a leaked print of a film from a studio mole, or an advance copy from an Academy Award screener, or a filched workprint, and you have a pirated version ready to download.
  • No one had snatched the last slice, so I filched it.
  • He had filched food, stolen everything from money to clothes and had spent a lot of his time running from police for some crime or another.
  • She filches cleaning supplies from her parents' house when she goes home to visit.
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