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/fɪlt͡ʃ/ · verb
(transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal..
Hey, someone filched my wallet!
You would foiſt in non cauſam pro cauſa ["I do not bring into question"], have it thought your flight from your olde companions, obſcuritie and ſilence, was onely, with Æneas, to carry your father on your backe through the fire of ſlaunder, and by that shift, with the false plea of patience, unjuſtly driven from his kingdome, filch a way the harts of the Queenes liege people!
This man hath bevvitcht the boſome of my childe, / Thou, thou Lyſander, thou haſt giuen her rimes, / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: / […] / VVith cunning haſt thou filcht my daughters heart, / Turnd her obedience (vvhich is due to mee) / To ſtubborne harſhneſſe.
But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that, vvhich not inriches him, / And makes me poore indeed.
He [Wolfe] therefore hoped, that every county in the kingdom would, […] meet, and conſult, and expreſt their moſt ſtrenuous diſlike and abhorrence of this ſcheme of deceit, to filch from them their liberties and commerce.
You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people’s heart in his breast? / […] / And filch the dogman's meat / To feed the offspring of God?
His very cocksureness is filched from [Charles] Darwin's morality of strength based on the survival of the fittest.
Few traces remain in this district of the great wall [Hadrian's Wall], except the unmistakable masonry blocks filched, and used for the construction of later buildings.
Use filch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Filch means (transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal..
Common synonyms include larceny, theft, filcher, pilferer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Hey, someone filched my wallet!
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