Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
- v. 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.
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.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To steal from, especially using force or violence.
- v. transitive, figuratively To deprive (of).
- v. intransitive, slang To burgle.
- v. intransitive To commit robbery.
- v. sports To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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. (Law) 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
- v. To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.
WordNet 3.0
- v. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- v. take something away by force or without the consent of the owner
Etymologies
- Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman rober, robber, from Old Dutch *rōbōn (compare Dutch roven), from Proto-Germanic *raubōnan (compare English reave). More at reave. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English robben, from Old French rober, of Germanic origin; see reup- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Almedina (1/28/2009 8: 57: 09 PM) omfg! kristen does not know wot shes gettin rob is like the most hottest and gorgeous guy eva and she doesnt even show feeling for him. seriously if i kissed a guy on a set i would like ask him out or something especially if it was rob!!!!!”
“You came here to rob, and to rob is to take what is not yours.”
“On March 30th 2010, ashleigh & kate wrote: hahaaaaaaaa. rob is obvs better. jt suck outtt. rpatz forever”
“Ohio” Movie Cast: Robert Pattinson, Zac Efron, Justin Timberlake
“You know, not all of the Twilight fans are those obsessive idiots that just go “omgz, rob is soo hott” all the time.”
“On August 12th 2009, melissa wrote: haha rob is so funny hes in love with kristen (shes a pretty girl lol) hope they are together”
“Well, whatever, I guess I'll just keep those songs on repeat for now, and wait patiently for more. elwoodfan77 (1/16/2009 6: 54: 31 PM) lol rob is AMAZING! hes so cute! lucky intern: D”
One Twilighter’s 2009 Wish List For Robert Pattinson » MTV Movies Blog
“Since when did we give Congress the right to 'rob from the rich and give to the poor'?”
“We rob from the unpopular and give to the popular.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The End Game In Residstribution Politics
“This should probably be amended to be: “We rob from the unpopular, render them legally defenseless (or threaten to), and give to the trial lawyers and unions.””
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The End Game In Residstribution Politics
“She might be an okay actress but if rob is smart he would never ever date her and if any of you keep saying that then you must not like him very much.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rob’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
ace, act, aff, aft, apo, app, apt, auk, ava, ave, avo, azo and 225 more...
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EN - 3-letter words of the pattern CVC
With the exception of abbreviations and mosaic words all types of words (proper names, past tense of verbs, etc.) are allowed.
for, was, not, his, but, has, had, can, her, him, new, now and 339 more...
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Boys Names
List of Boys names
danny, daniel, bobby, robert, chris, christopher, dan, bob, rob, jeff, jeffery, jeffrey and 105 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also Fi...
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Thievery
synonymous with steal.
pinch, lift, pilfer, appropriate, bilk, abscond, burgle, usurp, purloin, shoplift, bite, five finger discount and 38 more...
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Thief Words
Words that deal with stealing and thievery!
steal, plunder, theif, robber, rob, take, kidnap, stole, take ownership, snatch, grab, hide and 19 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Léxico de Scrabble Avanzado
Lista de palabras útiles, raras o esotéricas para Scrabble en Español recopiladas de partidas ordinarias.
Todas las palabras se encuentran en el DRAE.
Algunas palabras po...acocarse, ahelear, helear, pirulo, apirularse, sapirulo, pingar, mugar, her, dino, coquee, otri and 588 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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the criminal element
footpad, duped, murderer, machination, sinister, assailant, blackguard, felon, hooligan, knave, miscreant, saboteur and 8 more...
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etymological curiosities
Convergences. ('Convergent homonyms' is one candidate for the term; I'm not yet sure whether I like it best, even after a long time collecting.)
None of these are polysemous (identica...brook, mere, rum, juke, drill, duck, tick, hone, low, bat, may, bear and 79 more...
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slo: masc. nouns with -ôv- infix in d...
Many of these nouns also form the gen. sg. with -ú: dar, glas, grad, jez, mah, most, nos, pas, plaz, plod, rod, sad, sin (styl.), sled, smrad, strah, tat, trak, vrat, zid; other words that (somet...
glas, gozd, duh, grad, most, nos, dolg, dom, tram, top, rod, sin and 33 more...
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hernesheir (n): (cooking) Fruit juice thickened by evaporation to the consistency of honey. Jan 3, 2009