Vocabulary Focus:

Steal: to take something that belongs to someone else without permission and keep it or use it: They broke into cars to steal the radios.
Rob: to take money or property from a person or place illegally, often using threats or violence Two men robbed the store last night.
walk off with: to steal something
run away with: to steal something, or to borrow something without asking
burgle: to illegally enter a building and steal things. The person is a burglar.
snatch: to quickly steal something from someone
mug: to attack someone in a public place and steal their money, jewelry, or other possessions. The person is a mugger.
Break into: to force your way into something:

Pillage:/ ˈpɪl•ɪdʒ/  to steal something from a place or a person by using violence, esp. during war: Kidnap: to illegally take a person away by force, usually in order to demand money in exchange for that person’s release: 

Plunder: to take valuable things from a place using force, sometimes causing a lot of damage ( esp during times of war)

Loot: /lut/ to steal things from houses or stores during a war or after a disaster such as a fire or flood. (said esp. of large numbers of people) to steal from stores: 

Ravage: /ˈræv•ɪdʒ/ to cause great damage to something or someone: to commit destructive actions; it implies violent often cumulative depredation and destruction.

Extort: /ɪkˈstɔrt/ to obtain by force or threat: 

Pilfer: /ˈpɪl•fər/ to steal things of little value or in small amounts: 

Filch: /fɪltʃ/informal: to steal something of little value: OK – who filched my pencils?

Sack: to steal all the valuable things from a place and destroy it, usually during a war: