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rob Definition

rob (räb)

transitive verb robbed, rob′·bing

    1. Law to take personal property from unlawfully by using or threatening force and violence; commit robbery upon
    2. popularly to steal something from in any way, as by embezzlement or burglary
    3. to plunder or rifle
    4. Now Rare to take by stealing or plundering
  2. to deprive (someone) of something belonging or due, or take or withhold something from unjustly or injuriously the accident robbed him of health

Etymology: ME robben < OFr rober < Gmc *raubon, akin to OHG roubon, OE reafian < IE *reup-: see rub

intransitive verb

to commit robbery

rob Related Forms

rob′·ber noun

rob Synonyms

rob

v.

thieve, take, burglarize, strip, plunder, loot, deprive of, withhold from, defraud, cheat, swindle, pilfer, break into, hold up, stick up, mug, purloin, filch, lift, abscond with, embezzle, defalcate, peculate, shoplift, despoil, pillage, sack, burgle*, snitch*, pinch*, push over*, knock over*, roll*, swipe*, cop*, rip off*; see also steal.

rob Usage Examples

Object

  • mariano: For sleep rob mariano from our ability to in the world.
  • bank: A Taiwan police officer tried to rob a bank with a toy gun.
  • gang: On 13th February, 1866, the gang robbed a bank at Liberty, Missouri.
  • nest: They will constantly rob brown ants nests to maintain the number of slaves in the colony.
  • grave: There were too many puzzling features like the robbed graves.
  • traveler: The two sisters were witches, and in the form of cats robbed travelers who lodged under their roof.

Preposition: at

  • knifepoint: A man was robbed at knifepoint as he was sitting in his car at traffic lights in Coventry yesterday.
  • gunpoint: Yes, this is where birders were being robbed at gunpoint in the late ' 90s.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

blind: Or they may just rob the place blind again.

Adjective complement

blind: The Country was robbed blind as we saw public services sold off and services cut.

Modifying Another Word

  • cruelly: Unfortunately foot and mouth disease has brought this season to a premature close and cruelly robbed me of this opportunity.
  • by: Posted by rob on 6 August, 2004 at 4:13 AM Why would Kerry McFadden be writing to Elsie?
  • thus: Long hair consumes a great deal of nutrition and could thus rob the brain of energy.
  • heavily: Interestingly, it was left remarkably intact, whilst the other locos in the line were heavily robbed of spares.
  • again: Then again robbed by a dubious penalty at Highbury Pompey played out a 1-1 draw with the mighty Arsenal.
  • just: They'll just rob us the first chance they get.

Followed by an intransitive particle

off: The people who buy this stuff know its being robbed off their neighbors.

Preposition: of

  • penalty: Keane 7.5 - grabbed a goal and was robbed of a penalty but he missed some sitters.
  • stone: Those considered of less importance were robbed of stone to build towns and private dwellings.

Preposition: by

man: At about half past midnight on the morning of Friday 23 April a 68 year old man robbed by two young men.