ROB (robbed, robbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: robbed    , robbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rob mean? 

• ROB (verb)
  The verb ROB has 2 senses:

1. take something away by force or without the consent of the owner

2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

  Familiarity information: ROB used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rob    ... he / she / it robs   
Past simple: robbed   
Past participle: robbed   
-ing form: robbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The burglars robbed him of all his money

Hypernyms (to "rob" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rob"):

hold up; stick up (rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat)

pick (pilfer or rob)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They rob him of all his money

Derivation:

robber (a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence)

robbery (larceny by threat of violence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge

Hypernyms (to "rob" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

"Rob" entails doing...:

bill; charge (demand payment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rob"):

extort; gouge; rack; squeeze; wring (obtain by coercion or intimidation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

“That was wrong. It robbed me of a pleasure.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They got out of his way when he came along; nor did the boldest of them ever dare to rob him of his meat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It had robbed him of precious moments of living.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You have robbed Edmund for ten, twenty, thirty years, perhaps for life, of more than half the income which ought to be his.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On one side was an old, brown house, looking rather bare and shabby, robbed of the vines that in summer covered its walls and the flowers, which then surrounded it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is absurd to suppose that you have two enemies, one of whom robs you, while the other threatens your life.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You were not an accessory, therefore, and she came, so far as I can read the evidence, without your knowledge to rob you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Water was a consideration, and I robbed every boat aboard of its breaker.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had not been robbed, and there was no particular reason to suspect violence.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)