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  • verb To commit burglary.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling

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Examples

  • Would you let us back into the English-speaking world if we spell it "burglarise" instead?

    A World Gone Nuts: Missing Junk and Missing Pants BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Filipe was prevailed upon to borrow a ladder from another house, and burglarise my home to the extent of putting the monkey in.

    Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme

  • But before leaving Germany, knowing the Germans as I did, and particularly what they had done in other countries and to other diplomats, knowing how easy it would be for them to burglarise the safe after we left, when the Spaniards and Dutch were out of the building at night, I tossed all these despatches as well as the code books into a big furnace fire.

    Face to Face with Kaiserism 1909

  • It's one thing to take chances under cover of night when your heart is light, your pockets heavy, and wine is buzzing wantonly within your head: but another thing altogether to burglarise your enemy's apartments via the fire-escape, in broad daylight, and cold-sober.

    The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • "Now, then," he muttered, "I will burglarise a house and get money."

    Nonsense Novels Stephen Leacock 1906

  • To burglarise it with the sanction of State and Church, perhaps, and to escape with the connivance of both after she's got all she wants.

    From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • So whats the point, insure the people who want it, but want me to pay for it, or some illegal who criminally broke, and entered my country, then commenced to burglarise us, taking from our safty net, lowering our wages, sending forty, or fifty billion dollare a year to their home countries.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Burglary attempt at Lindsay Lohan’s home p2pnet news view Music | Crime: - Following news that Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament was recently mugged and injured, another crook tried to burglarise Lindsay Lohan’s home in Hollywood Hills.

    Burglary attempt at Lindsay Lohan’s home 2009

  • Burglary attempt at Lindsay Lohan’s home p2pnet news view Music | Crime:- Following news that Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament was recently mugged and injured, another crook tried to burglarise Lindsay Lohan’s home in Hollywood Hills.

    Burglary attempt at Lindsay Lohan’s home 2009

  • I didn't burglarise no home, "Carpenter said in a videotaped interview with investigators, which was presented in court.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2009

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