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Rob

verb

(past & past part. robbed; pres. part. robbing)

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

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price. Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, soak, surcharge.

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"Rob" Quotes from Famous Books

... community as enemies of mankind, it is the one professed by the South. Their right to separate is the right which Cartouche or Turpin would have had to secede from their respective countries, because the laws of those countries would not suffer them to rob and murder on the highway. The only real difference is that the present rebels are more powerful than Cartouche or Turpin, and may possibly be able to ...

— The Contest in America • John Stuart Mill

... the recognized thing, when they had gathered of a night round the fire in the Sylvester Arms, with Tammas in the centre, old Jonas Maddox on his right, Rob Saunderson of the Holt on the left, and the others radiating away toward the sides, for some ...

— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant

... you try to rob her of her dearest triumph, Lady Daisy. You're the big gem for the middle of the setting. ...

— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... of the returning prodigal, and kissed him; and that the rapture of his joy was the token and measure of the reality of his regret, and that it was the father to whom the prodigal son was 'lost.' Deep as is the mystery, let nothing, dear brethren, rob us of the plain fact that God's love moves all around the worst, the unworthiest, the most rebellious in the far-off land, and 'desires not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... the favour of gratifying one of her wishes. But his heart had swelled almost to bursting when, resting her beautiful white arm on the door of her litter, she had told him that unjust men were striving to rob her grandfather Didymus of his garden, and she expected him, who bore the title of the "King of kings" to do his best to ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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