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词汇 filched
释义 filched
past simple and past participle offilch
filch
verb[ T ]
 informaluk /fɪltʃ/ us /fɪltʃ/
to steal something of little value: 偷(不值钱的东西)
Who's filched my pencils?谁偷了我的铅笔?
Synonyms
lift(STEAL)informal
nick(STEAL)UKinformal
pilfer
pinch(STEAL)informal
purloinformal or humorous
snarfinformal
swipe(STEAL)informal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stealing
abscond
abscond with someone/something
aggravated burglary
anti-burglar
anti-burglary
eavesdrop
hot-wire
housebreaking
jemmy
jimmy
job
kleptomania
piratically
plunder
poach
poaching
porch piracy
rustle
rustling
snaffle

Examples of filched


filched

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


A large proportion of those resources consists of money that has been filched from the local authority in cuts in rate support grant.
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It is in that way that other liberties could be filched too.
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It was not in substitution for money that we filched from the local authorities; it was genuine additional money.
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We are always complaining that good agricultural land is being filched for other purposes.
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We have liberty, but day after day we see liberty being filched away, and eaten into.
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So there is no point in trying to frighten us with the idea of our sovereignty being secretly filched away from us.
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It is therefore not surprising that thousands of pounds have been filched from homeworkers by crooked employers in recent years.
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No money has been filched from the harbour authorities.
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However, that pales into insignificance when compared with the £26 that has, been filched from pensioners.
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Meanwhile, prices at home continue steadily to rise and our savings, our pensions and our covenanted benefits are gradually, silently, little by little, filched away.
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Our rights and privileges have been filched from us because of the war.
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We dare not allow it to be filched from us.
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The proposals will cost £300 million, and that money has been filched from other parts of the benefit system.
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They countenanced rigged elections, filched funds and the ruthless suppression of liberal opposition and religious freedom.
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Of that sum, no less than £339,000 had been filched from the public in the period of eleven months immediately prior to the prosecution being undertaken.
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