Synonyms of pocketing

pocketing

verb

present participle of pocket

1

as in suppressing

to refrain from openly showing or uttering

pocketed my anger and just let the insult pass

Synonyms & Similar Words

• suppressing
• swallowing
• stifling
• repressing
• controlling
• containing
• managing
• holding back
• choking (back)
• strangling
• sinking
• submerging
• smothering
• curbing
• checking
• governing
• quashing
• quelling
• bridling
• muffling
• bottling up
• squelching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• expressing
• releasing
• venting
• taking out
• loosing
• unleashing

2

as in stealing

to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep

she casually pocketed the note from his desk to read later

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stealing
• swiping
• grabbing
• snatching
• robbing
• pilfering
• filching
• lifting
• appropriating
• purloining
• pinching
• nicking
• misappropriating
• thieving
• hooking
• snitching
• nipping
• boosting
• heisting
• ripping off
• picking
• taking
• hijacking
• running off with
• making off with
• seizing
• plundering
• making away with
• looting
• sacking
• pillaging
• walking off with
• burglarizing
• rifling
• knocking over
• grasping
• rustling
• poaching
• nailing
• shoplifting
• spiriting
• abducting
• mooching
• collaring
• kidnapping
• sponging
• carjacking
• shanghaiing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• buying
• purchasing
• giving
• contributing
• presenting
• donating
• bestowing
• handing over

3

as in accepting

to put up with (something painful or difficult)

pocketed his wife's messy habits

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accepting
• handling
• tolerating
• standing
• taking
• enduring
• sustaining
• bearing
• absorbing
• stomaching
• swallowing
• supporting
• wearing
• hacking
• biding
• living with
• countenancing
• sticking out
• standing for
• meeting
• going
• lumping (it)
• abiding
• brooking
• sweating out
• allowing
• permitting
• toughing it out
• suffering
• respecting
• acquiescing
• reconciling (to)
• submitting (to)
• yielding (to)
• agreeing (with or to)
• consenting (to)
• capitulating
• assenting (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refusing
• dismissing
• rejecting
• declining
• fighting
• resisting
• opposing
• repudiating
• avoiding
• contesting
• combating
• missing
• turning down
• escaping
• evading
• spurning
• dodging
• bypassing
• eluding
• circumventing
• refraining (from)
• abstaining (from)
• forbearing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pocketing

For instance, a creditor might bid $35,000 for a $50,000 SUV, reducing the judgment by that amount, then sell it for $50,000, pocketing $15,000. — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Standing out on the main level are massive living and dining areas anchored by a wall of 25-foot Fleetwood pocketing doors that open to a lengthy deck. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 31 July 2026

In 2023, Afram sued director Martin Scorsese, accusing him of pocketing $500,000 to serve as an executive producer and then doing nothing to help get the project off the ground. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 July 2026

And shorting — borrowing a stock to sell it high in the hopes of repurchasing it at a cheaper price later and pocketing the proceeds — is having a bit of a renaissance. — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 July 2026

In July 2025, while presenting the awards for the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup to Chelsea, he was accused of pocketing one of the championship medals. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026

The company argued attorneys were swindling their own clients, inflating medical bills of car crash victims to increase the value of the settlement and then pocketing a hefty chunk of the payouts. — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

Thai’s laboratory allegedly billed Medicare roughly $142 million for genetic testing, successfully pocketing about $95 million on those claims, according to the FBI. — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026

In 2011, Rathdrum resident Holly Lahti split a $380 million jackpot with a Euphrata, Washington, couple, pocketing $190 million, The Christian Science Monitor reported at the time. — Sarah Linn june 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2026