transitive verb robbed, robbing
- Law to take personal property from unlawfully by using or threatening force and violence; commit robbery upon
- popularly to steal something from in any way, as by embezzlement or burglary
- to plunder or rifle
- Now Rare to take by stealing or plundering
- to deprive (someone) of something belonging or due, or take or withhold something from unjustly or injuriously: the accident robbed him of health
Origin:
ME robben < OFr rober < Gmc *raubon, akin to OHG roubon, OE reafian < IE *reup-: see rub