What is "burgled"

Usage examples of "burgled".

As the grief-stricken, burgled, beaten-up person on the sofa, she was unrecognizable.

His mother's house, he said, had been burgled while they were all out at his father's funeral.

Elgin Yaxley was in Hong Kong and Terence O'Tree was in jail, and neither they nor Bart Underfield had burgled, or bashed, or burned.

Being dragged out of bed at dawn by your lover’s scream, then finding your dog drugged and your home burgled, wasn’t a great way to start the day.

Little did they know that the place they were about to burgle - the shop, and the flat above ithad already been burgled the week before: yes, and the week before that.

Burglars were being burgled by fellow burglars, and were doing the same thing back.

Returning from burgling, burglars would discover that they had been burgled, sometimes by the very burglar that they themselves had just burgled!

He badly wanted to examine that burgled house, and he had been left behind by the Inspectorand lo and behold, he could now go there, taking charge of Hilary, and nobody could say a thing against it!

I expect he didnt realize it was his god-daughters house that had been burgled, when he went off with you, said Fatty.

He had come to see that the Trottevilles house was not already burgled.

Nothing muchexcept that Goon came in the middle of the night to see if wed been burgled or notand I really thought it might be the thief and let old Buster out.

Yet at the same time if the Spaniards had discovered he was a British officer wearing seaman's clothes and carrying an American Protection while arranging for Cordoba's house to be burgled, surely they'd have shot him as a spy?

We've heard of several people who've bought paintings and had their houses burgled soon after.