Antonyms for rob
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : rob |
| Phonetic Transcription : rÉ’b |
Definition of rob
Origin :- late 12c., from Old French rober "rob, steal, pillage, ransack, rape," from West Germanic *rauba "booty" (cf. Old High German roubon "to rob," roub "spoil, plunder;" Old English reafian, source of the reave in bereave), from Proto-Germanic *raubon "to rob," from PIE *reup-, *reub- "to snatch" (see rip (v.)).
- 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 1864 in reference to drafting young men in the American Civil War; by 1949 in reference to seductions or romantic relationships with younger persons. Related: Robbed; robbing.
- verb steal, deprive
- Would I rob Heaven and give the praise and honour to the creature?
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- But do you think I will rob my sister of her humble servant?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- He went to Garson yesterday with a scheme to rob your house.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- I—I can't have you rob this house, this particular house of all the world.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- On enquiry, we learned these fellows had threatened to rob her shop.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Morella has cast me off, and I hate him, and wish to escape from him and rob him of his prize.
- Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
- Constant efforts are made to get a man taken up, in order to rob him.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- Mulready, in your father's pay, tries to have him arrested, the better to rob him.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Better still, if I could throw temptation in his way, and lure him on to rob me.
- Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
- I cannot rob you of your maid and also be selfish enough to monopolize these rooms.
- Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
Synonyms for rob
- abscond
- appropriate
- bereave
- break into
- burglarize
- burgle
- cheat
- con
- cop
- defalcate
- defraud
- despoil
- disinherit
- dispossess
- divest
- do out of
- embezzle
- filch
- heist
- hijack
- hold up
- hustle
- liberate
- lift
- loot
- lose
- mug
- oust
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- plunder
- promote
- purloin
- raid
- ransack
- relieve
- requisition
- rifle
- rip off
- roll
- sack
- scrounge
- snitch
- stick up
- strip
- strong-arm
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- thieve
- withhold
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