tjuva — meaning in English

English meaning

• boost noun Something that helps increase or improve a person's effort, confidence, or performance.
• purloin verb To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
• snatch verb To grab something suddenly and quickly.

Senses

tjuva is used for these senses in English:

• boost (transitive, engineering) To amplify; to signal boost.
• purloin (intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.

boost — full definition

1. noun Something that helps increase or improve a person's effort, confidence, or performance.
2. verb To help increase or improve something.
3. verb To start a vehicle with a dead battery using jumper cables (informal).

purloin — full definition

1. verb To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
2. verb To commit theft; to thieve.

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