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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.
  3. To take as booty; steal.
v.intr.
To engage in or commit robbery.

idioms:

rob (someone) blind

  1. To rob in an unusually deceitful or thorough way: robbed the old couple blind while employed as a companion.
rob the cradle Informal.
  1. To have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone significantly younger than oneself.

[Middle English robben, from Old French rober, of Germanic origin.]

robber rob'ber n.



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