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Definitions for Robbing

[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).
[6] to commit or practice robbery.
[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.
[8] (tr) to take something from (someone) illegally, as by force or threat of violence
[9] to plunder (a house, shop, etc)
[10] (tr) to deprive unjustly to be robbed of an opportunity

Words related to Robbing

robbereave, raid, cheat, lose, plunder, mug, defraud, strip, divest, loot, hijack, ransack, swipe, rifle, sack, appropriate, embezzle, abscond, thieve, purloin

Words nearby Robbing

robroarming, roast, roaster, roasting, roasting ear, rob, rob peter to pay paul, rob roy, rob someone blind, rob the cradle, rob the till

Origin of Robbing

1175–1225; Middle English robben < Old French robber < Germanic; compare Old High German roubōn. See reave1

Words that may be confused with Robbing

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, robburglarize, mug, rip, off, rob, steal, (see, synonym, study, at, the, current, entry)

Other words from Robbing

un·robbed , adjective

Word origin for Robbing

C13: from Old French rober , of Germanic origin; compare Old High German roubōn to rob

Synonyms for Robbing

bereave, break into, cheat, defraud, divest, hijack, loot, lose, mug, plunder, raid, ransack, strip, abscond, appropriate, burglarize, burgle, con, cop, defalcate, despoil, disinherit, dispossess, embezzle, filch, heist, hustle, liberate, lift, oust, peculate, pilfer, pillage, pinch, promote, purloin, relieve, requisition, rifle, roll, sack, scrounge, snitch, strong-arm, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, withhold, do out of, hold up, rip off, stick up