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burgle

[bur-guhl] / ˈbɜr gəl /


VERB
burglarize
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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They could bug, burgle and listen to "subjects of interest", to use the jargon.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2025

Grant previously claimed journalists had used private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house - NGN denied the claims against it.

From BBC Nov. 15, 2024

“You make it as hard as possible for burglars in hopes that they look for some other house to burgle, but it’s impossible to ever completely secure your house.”

From Washington Post Apr. 9, 2019

Ford’s conversion took England to within five points and they had two minutes to burgle a victory.

From The Guardian Aug. 22, 2015

I was on the lee side of a camel, opening a boil in Mujrim's leg with his razor, when I caught sight of one of the younger men trying to burgle the medicine-chest.

From The Lion of Petra by Talbot Mundy

They speak a language that burgles and rains from their mouths like water through a pipe.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.

From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Here in America, when a man burgles your residence, you go and confide in a detective, who keeps your secret and gets another detective to help him.

From Remarks by Bill Nye

Kelce's home was burgled on 7 October 2024 when he was away playing a game with the Kansas City Chiefs.

From BBC May 25, 2026

Against Ireland, England had 52% possession, did almost half as much kicking as their opponents -18 in open play to Ireland's 31 - but were burgled at the breakdown repeatedly, conceding 14 turnovers.

From BBC Mar. 12, 2026

Mr Rangarajan was not CEO when the hack happened but says that colleagues described the chaos of discovering the hackers as "feeling like you'd been burgled whilst still inside the house".

From BBC Sep. 8, 2025

Weeks after her store was burgled, Leuschner had a strange interaction with a man offering her thousands of Legos “at a very low price.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2024

Before me, Lelia had come off a string of men who made her feel steadily sorry and confused and burgled.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The burgling of the psychiatrist’s office has been misunderstood in many accounts of Ellsberg’s life.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2023

Co-defendant O'Shay Swan, 42, from Winson Green Road, Birmingham, denies burgling Mr Varlow's property between 10 and 13 November and committing fraud in relation to the use of a bank card on 12 November.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2022

But, she says, “I’m not using my garden and the wood beyond my cottage as a sort of green Tesco, burgling myself some green serotonin and dopamine. It’s much more of a two-way relationship.”

From The Guardian Mar. 14, 2020

Former welder Caylor told police she had been assaulted but was later charged with burgling her sister's flat and perverting the course of justice.

From BBC Dec. 19, 2016

Besides, burgling involved more risks than he cared to take.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins




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