ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

oust &c (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate;
accroach † ; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume † , impoverish, eat out of house and
home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb &c (suck in) 296;
draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.
retake, resume; recover &c 775.
Adj. taking &c v.; privative † , prehensile; predaceous, predal † , predatory, predatorial † ;
lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.
bereft &c 776.
Adv. at one fell swoop.
Phr. give an inch and take an ell.
790. Restitution -- N. restitution, return; rendition, reddition † ; restoration; reinvestment,
recuperation; rehabilitation &c (reconstruction) 660; reparation, atonement;
compensation, indemnification.
release, replevin [Law], redemption; recovery &c (getting back) 775; remitter,
reversion.
V. return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go,
unclutch; disgorge, regorge † ; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify;
remit, rehabilitate; repair &c (make good) 660.
reinvest, revest, reinstate.
redeem, recover &c (get back) 775; take back again.
revest, revert.
Adj. restoring &c v.; recuperative &c 660.
Phr. suum cuique [Lat.].
791. Stealing -- N. stealing &c v.; theft, thievery, latrociny † , direption † ; abstraction,
appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism † ; latrocinium † .
spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage † ; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia † , rape,
depredation, raid; blackmail.
piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of
mark and reprisal.
filibustering, filibusterism † ; burglary; housebreaking; badger game [Slang].
robbery, highway robbery, hold-up [U.S.], mugging.
peculation, embezzlement; fraud &c 545; larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny,
shoplifting.
thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia † , den of Cacus, den of thieves.
blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].
[person who commits theft] thief &c 792.
V. steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim † , crib, cabbage, palm;
abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.
convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off
with; run away with; spirit away, seize &c (lay violent hands on) 789.
plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate † , despoil, strip, sweep, gut,
forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer † , maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger
[Slang]; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.