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unstole

unstole is the simple past of unsteal.

Meaning of unsteal

Verb

unsteal (third-person singular simple present unsteals, present participle unstealing, simple past unstole, past participle unstolen)

  1. (transitive) To reverse the process of stealing; to return, or never to have taken, something stolen.
    • You can't unshatter a bowl any more than you can unsteal a goat.2011, Wendy Mass, 13 Gifts, page 55

Questions about unstole

What is unstole the simple past of?
Unstole is the simple past of unsteal.

Words near unstole in the dictionary

  1. unstoic
  2. unstoical
  3. unstoically
  4. unstoichiometric
  5. unstoked
  6. unstole
  7. unstolen
  8. unstolid
  9. unstomachable
  10. unstone
  11. unstoned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unstole (page history and authors); unsteal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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