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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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