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burglarize

[bur-gluh-rahyz] / ˈbɜr gləˌraɪz /
VERB
break in
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


Example Sentences

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“It just kept playing in my mind, ‘How can you burglarize this?’”

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021

In another development, someone this week apparently tried to burglarize the hospital mortuary where Kim’s body is awaiting positive identification.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2017

Dean testified that orders to burglarize the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers to news organizations in 1971, came “right out of the Oval Office.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2015

“Eric Rivera Jr. would not have been in that car on the way to burglarize Sean Taylor’s house that night if he was a really good football player,” Dorsey said in a phone interview.

From Washington Times • Sep. 29, 2014

If I had for one instant imagined you cared enough about it to burglarize my rooms ...

From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph