Thesaurus results for ROB

rob

verb

ˈräb

Definition of rob

as in to loot

to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully in jail for robbing a bank

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Recent Examples of rob Marte was killed when Lopez Castillo and his accomplice, Axel Martinez, 20, tried to rob him in the park, according to police. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026 During a recent walk-through with city officials, an encampment resident asked for help after witnessing people entering the encampment and assaulting and robbing residents. — Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 The homes of basketball pros Sabrina Ionescu of the New York Liberty and Karl-Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks were robbed in 2025. — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2026 It’s been 14 years since that mugging, and I haven’t been robbed since, despite traveling to more than 60 countries and moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rob

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Verb

One of the Buddhas was looted more than 100 years ago from the Tianlongshan Grottoes, a temple complex in Shanxi Province.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Last year, the museum returned fragments of a silk manuscript from China that dated to more than 2,000 years ago and had been looted from a tomb.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of loot

Verb

Connor headed inside to relax for the first time in months, only to find that the property had been burglarized.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026
Chicago police are investigating after more than two dozen vehicles were burglarized on the city's South Side early Saturday morning.

— Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of burglarize

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In the sixties, artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Peter Saul had plundered lowbrow visual culture for elemental materials.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
In fact, plundering England’s lower leagues is a rich source of unique goals, from Ballard’s spectacular effort to this cheeky one from Crewe Alexandra striker Josh March in their 1-0 League Two win over Northampton on Saturday.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of plunder

Verb

The Financial Action Task Force, the global money-laundering watchdog, has warned that criminals exploit citizenship and residency programs to conceal their identities, launder illicit wealth and evade justice.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
This is the effect astronomers can exploit using HWO to look for signs of an exoplanet’s atmosphere.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of exploit

Verb

The House passed its own version over the summer as part of the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, which strips out the duty of care language.

— Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
With the sentence stripped down to subject, moment and outcome, teams can go looking in places that have nothing to do with their product.

— Duncan Wardle, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of strip

Verb

Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s mansion was nearly burgled.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
The Stathe stars as a car dealer with a criminal past whose girlfriend (Saffron Burrows) presents him with an opportunity to burgle the safe deposit boxes of the wealthy clients of a Lloyds Bank branch on London’s Baker Street.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of burgle

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