ROB
noun1
Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography Region of background (in digital images).
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- ROI
rob
verbalso spelled ROBUK /ɹɒb/ · US /ɹɑb/
Etymology From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, from Late Latin raubāre, from Frankish *raubōn (compare Dutch roven) and Old High German roubōn, raubōn (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *raubōną. Doublet of reave.
7 senses
1
To steal from, especially using force or violence.
- He robbed three banks before he was caught.
2
To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
- The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
- I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
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Figuratively, Used with "of" To deprive (of).
- Working all day robs me of any energy to go out in the evening.
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
1 more example
- The railway is still vital to Jordan's export trade, but in spite of the poor quality of the road, diesel lorries are gradually robbing it of freight traffic, and anyone who can afford to fly does so rather than face the long desert journey by rail.1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
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Slang To burgle.
- Her house was robbed.2008 September 4, National Public Radio, All Things Considered:
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To commit robbery.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
- Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
- Derived terms
- berob, flash rob, graverobbed, like robbing a baby, on the rob, robbable, robber, robbery, rob blind, rob-dog, Robmanian, rob out, rob Peter to pay Paul, rob someone blind, rob the cradle, torob, unrobbed, who's robbing this coach