Rob

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Law To take property from (a person) illegally by using or threatening to use violence or force; commit robbery upon.
  • v. To take valuable or desired articles unlawfully from: rob a bank.
  • v. To deprive unjustly of something belonging to, desired by, or legally due (someone): robbed her of her professional standing.
  • v. To deprive of something injuriously: a parasite that robs a tree of its sap.
  • v. To take as booty; steal.
  • verb-intransitive. To engage in or commit robbery.
  • idiom. rob (someone) blind To rob in an unusually deceitful or thorough way: robbed the old couple blind while employed as a companion.
  • idiom. rob the cradle Informal To have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone significantly younger than oneself.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To steal from, especially using force or violence.
  • v. To deprive (of).
  • v. To burgle.
  • v. To commit robbery.
  • v. To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
  • v. To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.
  • v. To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.
  • v. To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud
  • verb-intransitive. To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To steal; take away unlawfully.
  • To plunder or strip by force or violence; strip or deprive of something by stealing; deprive unlawfully; commit robbery upon. See robbery.
  • To deprive.
  • To carry away; ravish.
  • To hinder; prevent.
  • In metal-mining, to remove ore from (a mine) with a view to immediate profit rather than to the permanent safety and development of the property.
  • In coal-mining, to cut away or reduce in size, as the pillars of coal left for the support of the mine.
  • Synonyms and To despoil, fleece. See pillage, n.
  • To commit robbery.
  • n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, mixed with honey or sugar to the consistence of a conserve; a conserve of fruit.
  • In spoil-five, when the trump card turned up is an ace, the dealer may rob it by discarding a card from his own hand in its place. If the trump card is not an ace, any player holding the ace of trumps may, when it is his turn to play to the first trick, pass a card to the dealer and receive the turned trump in its place.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
  • v. take something away by force or without the consent of the owner
  • Verb Form
    robbed    robbing    robs   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    robbed    robbing    rhob    rohob   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    defraud    plunder    steal    deprive    pirate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bob    Cobb    Job    Punjab    blob    bob    cob    cobb    dob    glob   
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