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Audio Help [rob] Pronunciation Key verb, robbed, rob·bing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.

2.	to deprive (someone) of some right or something legally due: They robbed her of her inheritance.

3.	to plunder or rifle (a house, shop, etc.).

4.	to deprive of something unjustly or injuriously: The team was robbed of a home run hitter when the umpire called it a foul ball. The shock robbed him of his speech.

5.	Mining. to remove ore or coal from (a pillar).

–verb (used without object)

6.	to commit or practice robbery.

—Idiom

7.	rob Peter to pay Paul, to take something from one person or thing to pay one's debt or hypothetical debt to another, as to sacrifice one's health by overworking.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME robben < OF robber < Gmc; cf. OHG roubōn. See reave¹

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—Synonyms 1. Rob, rifle, sack refer to seizing possessions that belong to others. Rob is the general word for taking possessions by unlawful force or violence: to rob a bank, a house, a train. A term with a more restricted meaning is rifle, to make a thorough search for what is valuable or worthwhile, usually within a small space: to rifle a safe. On the other hand, sack is a term for robbery on a huge scale during war; it suggests destruction accompanying pillage, and often includes the indiscriminate massacre of civilians: to sack a town or district. 2. defraud, cheat.

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rob Audio Help   (rŏb) Pronunciation Key
v.   robbed, rob·bing, robs

v.   tr.

Law To take property from (a person) illegally by using or threatening to use violence or force; commit robbery upon.
To take valuable or desired articles unlawfully from: rob a bank.
1. To deprive unjustly of something belonging to, desired by, or legally due (someone): robbed her of her professional standing.
2. To deprive of something injuriously: a parasite that robs a tree of its sap.
To take as booty; steal.

v. intr.
To engage in or commit robbery.

[Middle English robben, from Old French rober, of Germanic origin; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]

rob'ber n.

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