mindmap root((盗抢)) theft implies the taking and removing of another's property without the person's consent and usually by stealth: the ~ of an idea may hurt far more than the ~ of money. larceny chiefly in legal use, applies to simple direct theft in which the property of one person is taken into the possession of another: ~ is "grand" or "petty" according to the value of the goods taken. robbery in strict use implies violence or the threat of violence employed in the taking of another's property: the messenger was attacked and seriously injured in the course of a ~. burglar implies a forced and unlawful entering of closed premises for the purpose of committing a felony, usually that of larceny or robbery: lived in constant fear of ~.