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  1. transitive verb Law To take property from (a person) illegally by using or threatening to use violence or force; commit robbery upon.
  2. transitive verb To take valuable or desired articles unlawfully from: rob a bank.
  3. transitive verb To deprive unjustly of something belonging to, desired by, or legally due (someone): robbed her of her professional standing.
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  1. Middle English robben, from Old French rober, of Germanic origin; see reup- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English robben, from Old French robber, rober = Spanish robar = Portuguese roubar = Italian rubare, from Middle Latin raubare, rob, steal, plunder, from Old High German roubōn, Middle High German rouben, German rauben = Old Saxon rōbhōn = Anglo-Saxon reáfian, English reave = Gothic (Moesogothic) bi-raubōn, rob, bereave: see reave, of which rob is thus a doublet, derived through Old French and Middle Latin from the Old High German cognate of the English reave. Cf. robe.
  2. from French rob, from Spanish rob, arrope = Portuguese robe, arrobe = Italian rob, robbo, from Arabic robb, Persian rubb, inspissated juice, syrup, fruit-jelly.
 

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