Robbery
['rɒb(ə)rɪ] or ['rɑbəri]
Definition
(n.) The act or practice of robbing; theft.
(n.) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Depredation, peculation, theft, larceny, spoliation, plunder, pillage, spoil.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Theft, larceny, pillage, plundering, depredation, spoliation
ANT:Guarding, protecting, indemnifying, compensating, enriching
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Examples
- Now, with regard to this here robbery, master,' said Blathers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- See what tidings that horn tells us of--to announce, I ween, some hership [12] and robbery which has been done upon my lands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I heard that the table beer was a robbery of parents, and the pudding an imposition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Do you think he had planned this robbery, when he went with you to the lodging? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Gigantic attempted Robbery. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Never mind how he came there; it's quite enough for my power over him that he was in a robbery; that's all I want. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If robbery for the purpose of gain was at the bottom of the conspiracy, the Colonel's instructions absolutely made the Diamond better worth stealing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A robbery of a daring and aggravated nature occasioned a vigilance of pursuit, and a strictness of search, they had not calculated on. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And still, not a word of the robbery. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was a robbery, miss, that hardly anybody would have been down upon,' said Blathers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Did your client commit the robbery? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Fair trade, my mother used to say, but no robbery and no blows. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And I call it a robbery: it was like giving him the land, to promise it; and what is promising, if making everybody believe is not promising? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For by that time it was known that the late Mr Merdle's complaint had been simply Forgery and Robbery. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Central Europe did not fully recover from these robberies and devastations for a century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is not even (so far as we know, or as the facts appear to us) concerned with the gang in any of their robberies. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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