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burgle

[bur-guhl] / ˈbɜr gəl /


VERB
burglarize
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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Grant had accused The Sun of using private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house, and said he settled because he could not face the possible costs of proceeding to trial.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025

Melvin Manhoef was in Paris promoting an upcoming bout against Yoel Romero when he heard some worrying news - men could be planning to burgle his home.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2022

“You make it as hard as possible for burglars in hopes that they look for some other house to burgle, but it’s impossible to ever completely secure your house.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2019

Ford’s conversion took England to within five points and they had two minutes to burgle a victory.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2015

I was on the lee side of a camel, opening a boil in Mujrim's leg with his razor, when I caught sight of one of the younger men trying to burgle the medicine-chest.

From The Lion of Petra by Talbot Mundy

They speak a language that burgles and rains from their mouths like water through a pipe.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.

From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Here in America, when a man burgles your residence, you go and confide in a detective, who keeps your secret and gets another detective to help him.

From Remarks by Bill Nye

Love Island host Maya Jama and Manchester City player Ruben Dias are said to be devastated after their Cheshire home was burgled on Wednesday evening.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

The memo is also notable for one of the names in it - James McCord, who would later gain infamy as one of the men who burgled the Watergate complex.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025

After watching his side burgled in their own home by an increasingly familiar Rangers away Europa League display, the Portuguese landed far more blows on the visitors than his team had managed.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

Weeks after her store was burgled, Leuschner had a strange interaction with a man offering her thousands of Legos “at a very low price.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Before me, Lelia had come off a string of men who made her feel steadily sorry and confused and burgled.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Manchester City winger Jack Grealish says he is "devastated" after the "traumatic experience" of thieves burgling his home while he was playing.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2023

The burgling of the psychiatrist’s office has been misunderstood in many accounts of Ellsberg’s life.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023

Co-defendant O'Shay Swan, 42, from Winson Green Road, Birmingham, denies burgling Mr Varlow's property between 10 and 13 November and committing fraud in relation to the use of a bank card on 12 November.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2022

But, she says, “I’m not using my garden and the wood beyond my cottage as a sort of green Tesco, burgling myself some green serotonin and dopamine. It’s much more of a two-way relationship.”

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2020

"Head it, suspicious information: first prisoner, probably dangerous burglar burgling on Christmas eve; second prisoner, cattle thief; third prisoner—" "But we aren't anything like that," broke in Rudolf hastily.

From The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels


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