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Answer for the clue "Murder and robbery by thugs ", 7 letters:
thuggee

Word definitions for thuggee in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. murder and robbery by thugs

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Thuggee or tuggee (; ; ; ; ) refers to the acts of Thugs , an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers . Thugs travelled in groups across the Indian sub-continent for six hundred years. Although the Thugs traced their origin to seven Muslim ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thuggee \Thug*gee"\, n. [Hind. [.t]hag[=i].] The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. ``One of the suppressors of Thuggee.'' --J. D. Hooker.

Usage examples of thuggee.

Lord Bentinck appointed a special Commissioner for the Suppression of Thuggee and Dacoity, William Sleeman, and his investigations and interrogations of informers revealed the full extent of the activities of the secret society of THUGS.

Fu-Manchu, whose tentacles were dacoity, thuggee, modes of death, secret and swift, which in the darkness plucked men from life and left no clew behind.

It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his sway.