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🦹 To steal by force 💸 To overcharge
to rob

to rob

73 6.4
To charge someone a much higher price than usual
  • verb
  • /rɑb/
  • Informal
translation icon : timar
  • Charging an extra fee for that service is just robbing customers of their hard-earned money.

Examples

  • I felt cheated by Culphert, robbed of the labor I had put into the land.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • What they're doing is robbing you in a different way, OK?

  • This asshole really did rob us, he needs a new line of work.

    Bagman (2024)

  • I got close many times, but they always robbed me at the last minute.

    The Iron Claw (2023)

  • Why rob a bank when you got a sucker for a mother?

    Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

  • Your phone is robbing you of time.

  • He said that the Fed was robbing from the poor to pay the rich.

  • I was livid and told him that he was selfish, robbing me of my rest.

  • I did not want well-meaning chaplains, social workers, and nurses to rob me of my contrition.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Today they have robbed you of Baghdad, and tomorrow they will rob you of Riyadh unless God deems otherwise.

    Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

to rip off
vsto rob
  • Informal
76 6.5

To cheat someone by charging too much money or selling fake goods

focuses more on informal overcharging as a deliberate swindle
to overcharge
vsto rob
18 3.4

To ask someone for more money than a fair price

is informal and adds stronger suggestion of deliberate swindling
to fleece
vsto rob
  • Informal
14 8.5

Charge someone too much money

is informal and also stresses cheating by asking too much
to pluck
vsto rob
  • Archaic
14 9.9

To charge someone too much money

is an informal term that emphasizes swindling by excessive price
to set back
vsto rob
  • Informal
12 5.8

To cost someone a lot of money

is informal and specifically implies deliberate and unfair overcharging
to soak
vsto rob
  • Informal
8 8.7

Charge someone much more than a fair price

is informal language that focuses on overcharging as cheating
to hook
vsto rob
  • Informal
7 8.1

To charge someone too much money for something

is informal and stresses the act of swindling by price
to overbill
vsto rob
2 6.1

Charge someone more money than they should pay for goods or services

is informal and implies intentional overcharging rather than billing mistake
to gouge the customer
vsto rob
1 8.2

Charge customers much more than is fair

is informal and highlights swindling customers with high prices
to surcharge
vsto rob
6.0

Add an extra fee to a price, often for a special service

is broader informal overcharging that often implies direct swindling

Antonyms

to discount
36 1.7

To sell something at a lower price than usual

Idioms

to rob the cradle
  • NSFW
2 8.7

Date or marry someone much younger, often seen as wrong by others

Compounds

Rob Roy
3 7.5

A cocktail made with Scotch whisky, sweet vermouth, and bitters

How Unfair

to gouge
  • NSFW
8 8.3
to fleece
  • Informal
14 8.5
to rip off
  • Informal
76 6.5
to rob
  • Informal
73 6.4
to overcharge
18 3.4
to charge
808 2.0

Surface Forms

rob infinitive
robbed past
robbed past participle
robbing present participle
robs third person singular

Etymology

Rob (informal) comes from the same idea of taking money; a helpful way to remember it is to imagine being 'robbed' by a high price, so to rob someone in this sense means to charge them an unfairly high amount.