Difference between Stolen and Purloined

What is the difference between Stolen and Purloined?

Stolen as a verb is to take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else. while Purloined as a verb is to take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.

Stolen

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That has been stolen.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.

Example sentence: I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen.

Purloined

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.

We hope you now know whether to use Stolen or Purloined in your sentence.

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