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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

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

No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.
Dick Van Dyke

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
Michael Badnarik

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.
Jennifer O'Neill

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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