burglarize

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
26
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡləɹaɪz/

Definition of burglarize

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (Canada, US, ambitransitive)To commit burglary.
    “People who would now attempt to burglarize in top-boots, would be as mad as if they were to adopt that costume for picking pockets.”
    “[M]en exclaim against you as the most bungling of "cabbagers" ... that ever burglarised upon the property of Shakespeare!”
    “In this dilemma there were but two resources open to the infuriated stewards, -- one to carry the key vi et armis; the other, to burglarize the cellar.”
    “Deaseley Brothers & Dodge, wholesale dry goods store, was burglarized last night, and three thousand dollars worth of silks taken. No arrests.”
    “I also told you my house had been thoroughly burglarized three times,”

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Etymology

From burglar + -ize (1829).

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