Definition of Rob

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Definition of Rob

Rob

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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Rob Quotations

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
Chris Rock

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Albert Camus

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Bertolt Brecht

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Anton Chekhov

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
Anton Chekhov

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Anton Chekhov

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?
John Dillinger

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
William Booth

Rob Translations

rob in Danish is plyndre
rob in Dutch is stropen, buitmaken, roven, plunderen
rob in French is ravir, piller
rob in German is berauben, berauben, rauben, ausrauben
rob in Latin is spolio
rob in Portuguese is roubar
rob in Spanish is robar

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