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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rob
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bank
▪ Suspended sentence ... granny who tried to rob bank escapes going to prison.
▪ I robbed that bank and thought people would be mad at me.
▪ He tried, with three other men, to rob a bank.
▪ Like when I robbed the bank.
▪ If you've written a fun game and want to make your fortune, sling the tape and rob a bank!
▪ So Guthrie went to Cincinnati to rob a bank on his own.
▪ Yet they would no more have dreamt of complaining than of robbing a bank.
▪ Also 38, he denies robbing any banks and says he is being persecuted for his beliefs.
house
▪ Quite affluent, the newcomers entertained, although Mr Thompson managed to get away at nights, robbing houses across London.
▪ And he robbed Madge's house and smashed it up.
man
▪ He tried, with three other men, to rob a bank.
▪ Later that evening, two men plotted to rob the parson.
▪ Certainly the old man will have said he saw a man robbing them.
■ VERB
attack
▪ In the last two months 20 buses have been damaged by missiles, drivers have been attacked and robbed.
attempt
▪ He faces a second charge of attempting to rob assistant Elizabeth Walsh at the nearby Grotto card shop on the same day.
▪ Lee said it is unknown if the gunman attempted to rob the couple before he started shooting.
▪ Why did Bob persist in attempting to rob the cradle?
try
▪ Suspended sentence ... granny who tried to rob bank escapes going to prison.
▪ I knew that if I tried to rob some one and got caught, I'd go to jail.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He got five years in jail for robbing a gas station.
▪ Police are looking for a man who robbed a gas station on Van Ness Avenue.
▪ The woman had been robbed and was badly shaken.
▪ Two men robbed the Central Bank yesterday, escaping with over $1 million.
▪ Two men tried to rob him as he left the restaurant.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In addition, the migration from rural areas to the cities has robbed the region of many of its truffle gatherers.
▪ The thieves contributed to rob me of my ally, silencing him twice over.
▪ Their insecurities too often robbed the managers of invaluable support, just when they needed it most.
▪ They rob die-hard travelers of a work or vacation day.
▪ They weight us down, they rob us, they starve us.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rob

Rob \Rob\, v. i. To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.

I am accursed to rob in that thief's company.
--Shak.

Rob

Rob \Rob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Robbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Robbing.] [OF. rober, of German origin; cf. OHG. roub?n, G. rauben, and OHG. roub robbing, booty, G. raub. [root]114. See Reave,and cf. Robe.]

  1. To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.

    Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish?
    --Milton.

    He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all.
    --Shak.

    To be executed for robbing a church.
    --Shak.

  2. (Law) To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.

  3. To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight.

    I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
    --Shak.

Rob

Rob \Rob\, n. [F.; cf. Sp. rob, It. rob, robbo, Pg. robe, arrobe, Ar. rubb, robb, Per. rub.] The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. [Written also rhob, and rohob.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rob

late 12c., from Old French rober "rob, steal, pillage, ransack, rape," from West Germanic *rauba "booty" (cognates: 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.

Wiktionary
rob

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence. 2 (lb en transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. 3 (lb en transitive figuratively used with "of") To deprive (of). 4 (lb en intransitive slang) To burgle. 5 (lb en intransitive) To commit robbery. 6 (lb en sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from. Etymology 2

alt. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.

WordNet
rob
  1. v. take something away by force or without the consent of the owner; "The burglars robbed him of all his money"

  2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, hook] [ant: undercharge]

  3. [also: robbing, robbed]

Wikipedia
Rob

Rob or ROB may refer to: __NOTOC__

Rob (dog)

Rob (1939 – 18 January 1952) was a Collie dog who in February 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal. considered to be the animals' Victoria Cross. He was alleged to have made over 20 parachute descents during the North African Campaign, serving with the SAS. However, in 2006, his actions were revealed as being a possible hoax perpetrated by members of his regiment in order to prevent Rob leaving after his original owners requested his return.

Rob (TV series)

Rob (stylized in promos as ¡Rob!) is an American sitcom television series that premiered on CBS on January 12, 2012, at as a mid-season replacement for Rules of Engagement, and ended on March 1, 2012. The series stars Rob Schneider alongside Cheech Marin, Claudia Bassols, Diana Maria Riva, Eugenio Derbez, Ricky Rico, and Lupe Ontiveros. The show was produced by Two and a Half Mens The Tannenbaum Company and CBS Television Studios. On May 13, 2012, CBS canceled the series.

Rob (surname)

Rob is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Chris Rob, American musician
  • Luboš Rob (born 1970), Czech ice hockey player
  • Luboš Rob (ice hockey b. 1995), Czech ice hockey player
Rob (given name)

Rob is a masculine given name, frequently a shortened version ( hypocorism) of Robert. It may refer to:

  • Rob Adams (architect) (born 1948), Australian architect and urban designer
  • Rob Bailey (cricketer) (born 1963), English cricketer
  • Rob Bailey (director), English television director
  • Rob Bailey (musician), Australian musician
  • Rob Brown (disambiguation)
  • Rob Burch (footballer) (born 1983), English retired football goalkeeper
  • Rob Burch (politician) (born 1946), American politician
  • Rob Davies (disambiguation)
  • Rob Davis (disambiguation)
  • Rob Edwards - see Robert Edwards (disambiguation)
  • Rob Harley (born 1990), Scottish rugby union player
  • Rob Jacobs (born 1943), Dutch association football former player and manager
  • Rob James (disambiguation)
  • Rob Johnson (disambiguation)
  • Rob Mariano (born 1975), American reality television competitor, winner of Survivor: Redemption Island
  • Rob Moore (disambiguation)
  • Rob Morris (American football) (born 1975), American former National Football League player
  • Rob Morris (Freemason) (1818–1888), American poet and Freemason
  • Rob Palmer (disambiguation)
  • Rob Parker (disambiguation)
  • Rob Schneider (born 1963), American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director
  • Rob Stewart (actor) (born 1961), Canadian actor
  • Rob Stewart (filmmaker) (born 1979), Canadian filmmaker
  • Rob Vickers (born 1981), English rugby union player
  • Rob Walker (disambiguation)
  • Rob Warner (footballer) (born 1977), English retired footballer
  • Rob Warner (mountain biker) (born 1970), English mountain biker, motocross rider and TV presenter
  • Rob Watson (disambiguation)
  • Rob Zombie (born 1965), American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer Robert Bartleh Cummings

Category:Masculine given names

Usage examples of "rob".

StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.

He then rendered it suffocating by closing the amado, for the reason often given, that if he left them open and the house was robbed, the police would not only blame him severely, but would not take any trouble to recover his property.

Somebody tauld her lately that ane Bell Calvert robbed her house, but she disna believe it.

It would seem as if skill and polish, with the amount of attention which they appropriate, with their elevation of manner over matter, and thence their lowered standard, are apt to rob from or blur in men these highest qualifications of genius, for it is true that judges miss even in the Lionardo, Michael Angelo, and Raphael of a later and much more accomplished generation, and, to a far greater extent, in the Rubens of another and still later day, the perfect simplicity, the unalloyed fervour, the purity of tenderness in Giotto, Orcagna, Fra Angelico, and in their Flemish brethren, the Van Eycks and Mabuse.

Its waste is a wanton expenditure, which robs the blood of its richness and exhausts the body of its animating powers.

Lysie was claimed by Marten of Argon, the man she assaulted and robbed.

Every so often, he would take the slowmatch from out the clamp and whirl it around several times in the air before once more securing it back into the serpentine of his clumsy arquebus, for if that scurvy, ill-natured pig of a Seosaidh Scot who had robbed him of his well-earned sleep and set him to this useless, thankless task should come by and find his match unlit, he surely would set about thrashing Raibert.

The newspapers in the notices of the burning of the steamer had given attention chiefly to Lynn, merely stating briefly that Badger had been drugged and robbed by the ex-boat-keeper.

Fool, I, Rob, do Rob and have Robbed greater Robbers that I might by Robbery live to Rob like Robbers again, as thou, by thy foolish folly, fooleries make, befooling fools lesser than thou, that thou, Fool, by such fool-like fooleries may live to fool like fools again!

Randall Birley had been her hero, but paradoxically the whole episode had robbed her of hero-worship.

The bothy had been robbed, as far as I could see, of everything I could have raised money on.

My situation was not pleasant to contemplate: I had been drugged, cheated, robbed, abused, imprisoned, threatened with a mulct of a hundred thousand francs, which would have stripped me to my shirt, as nobody knew the contents of my pocket-book.

Our occupation is robbing, cheating, and escaping from one land to another.

Do you know, dearest, that I cannot understand how you could fall in love with me after having known her, any more than I can conceive how she does not hate me ever since she has discovered that I have robbed her of your heart.

He had a fixed impression that all the tenants robbed him, so whenever he found a bunch of grapes in a cottage he proceeded to beat the occupants unless they could prove that the grapes did not come from his vineyards.