Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1865, American English, from burglary + -ize. Related: Burglarized; burglarizing.\n\nWe see in a telegraphic despatch from across the boundary line that a store was "burglarized" a short time ago. We are sorry that any thing so dreadful should have happened to any of our inventive cousins. Truly the American language is "fearfully and wonderfully made." ["Upper Canada Law Journal," September 1865, p.228]\n
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\nBurglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism. "The Yankeeisms donated, collided, and burglarized have been badly used up by an English magazine writer." (Southern Magazine, April, 1871.) The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle.
[Maximilian Schele De Vere, "Americanisms; The English of the New World," 1872]
Wiktionary
vb. (context chiefly North America English) To commit burglary.
WordNet
v. commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling [syn: burglarise, burgle, heist]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "burglarize".
Among her customers in the past year and a half, eight of them got burglarized while they were out of town on vacation.
My wife shot an intruder, whom she caught in the act of burglarizing my study, where I keep valuable collectibles.
Doberman pinscher he killed when he burglarized a lumberyard in Tulsa in 1921, and she didn't care.
Coleman played his sax, afraid to burglarize, afraid to visit his wolverine friends.
Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, he gets a phone call from some yo-yo named Liddy, whom he barely knows, saying that four Cubans he's never even met have just been caught in the act of burglarizing the office of the Democratic National Committee located in an office building about 200 yards across the plaza below his own balcony in the Watergate apartments.
If I had for one instant imagined you cared enough about it to burglarize my rooms .
He was bugging my office, burglarizing my home, and looking in my safe.
What no one ever seemed to piece together was that after a decent interval, virtually all of the homes he visited were burglarized by someone with a seemingly infallible method of bypassing security systems.
Jason had jotted them down, replaced the paper before the woman knew it was gone and then, tempted beyond control, had burglarized the four homes: the Ellots, the Ashtons, the Donnatellis.
You remember how five years ago my cousin Judith's place in Rhode Island was burglarized?
The covering letter explained that the flyer was being sent to anyone who had been a guest at gatherings in homes that were burglarized shortly afterwards.
The tips continued to filter in to the FBI from people who had been guests at one or more of the various burglarized homes.
Not too many lawyers could get a suspect acquitted of a homicide when the guy admitted he was in the victim's apartment and burglarized it around the time of the murder.
He told Browski that if Joel hadn't burglarized the apartment, his mother would be alive today, that Joel was the real killer.
Or was this just cops zeroing in on the facts, ma'am, as if she herself was the one who'd robbed her own apartment, burglarized it, whatever the hell.