stolen
stolen (stō′lən)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
stolen
modif.
Modifies a noun
- artifact: They want Ramon to keep an eye on the black market in stolen artifacts.
- antiquity: He also forbade anyone from buying or selling stolen Iraqi antiquities.
- presidency: International news and analysis Mexican presidential election: Another stolen presidency?
- vehicle: Q What powers do the police have to remove stolen vehicles from where they find them?
- jewel: An old hat and a Christmas goose are the only clues to a stolen jewel.
- motorbike: It is possible a silver BMW was used to transport the stolen motorbike.
Used with adjective complement
- get: As I said in a previous entry, my credit card got stolen ( okay, that wasn't terribly funny ).
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
Today the revolution has been stolen by the revisionist clique of Deng.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen, be your apples.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong For such despite they cast on female wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.
Browse dictionary entries near stolen
- stole
- STOL
- Stokowski
- stokesia
- Stokes
- stoker
- stokehole
- stokehold
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stoke Newington
- stolen property
- stolid
- Stoll, Clifford Books
- stollen
- stolon
- stolport
- stoma
- stomach
- stomach pump
- stomach tooth
