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rob

  [rob] verb, robbed, rob⋅bing.
Use robbed in a Sentence
–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 reave 1

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   (rŏb)   
v.   robbed, rob·bing, robs

v.   tr.

  1. Law To take property from (a person) illegally by using or threatening to use violence or force; commit robbery upon.

  2. 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.

  4. 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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
rob (so)

  1. tv.
    to steal freely from someone. : Her maid was robbing her blind.
  2. tv.
    to overcharge someone. : Those auto repair shops can rob you blind if you don't watch out.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

rob 
c.1175 (implied in robber), from O.Fr. rober, from a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. roubon "to rob," roub "spoil, plunder;" O.E. reafian, source of the reave in bereave), from P.Gmc. *raubojanan, from *raub- "to break."
"Lord, hou schulde God approve þat þou robbe Petur, and gif þis robbere to Poule in þe name of Crist?" [Wyclif, c.1380]
To rob the cradle is attested from 1940s. Robber baron in the "corrupt, greedy financier" sense is attested from 1878.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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