to burgle
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5.0
- verb
- /ˈbɜrɡl/
- UK
:
robar
- My apartment was burgled yesterday, and they took my Parkinson's meds.
But he was on the phone his his house was getting burgled.
- But he was on the phone his his house was getting burgled.
- So it was easy for Mcgruder to come in and Dean to come in and tell them to burgle the Watergate.
- I think my thought process straight away was someone has come in to possibly burgle the house and they've heard that I'm in the shower.
- We have burgled a lot of hams.
Examples
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Archie, we've been burgled.
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The Kaikohe Police Station was burgled last night.
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"How on earth could anyone manage to get in and burgle her?" Police, he said.
Fiction book (2002) -
Now, you suggest that this man came to burgle your flat... ...but there's no evidence of that.
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Police were given a tip that a man suspected of burgling a local store had been staying at the motel.
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We're being burgled!
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We had been burgled.
Academic text (1999) -
Rather than residential burglaries, youth discussed burgling veterinarian offices with the specific aim of obtaining ketamine.
Academic text (2009) -
The police caught the man trying to burgle a jewelry store last night.
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After the alarm went off, they discovered that someone had attempted to burgle the community center.
Synonyms
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3.9
To enter a building or computer system without permission, often by force
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5.0
To enter a building without permission to steal things
How Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Burgle was made from the word burglar, a person who breaks into a place to steal, and is related to the noun burglary, which means 'the crime' of breaking in. So, to burgle something is to enter a building illegally to steal, just like a burglar does.