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Verb: burgle  bur-gul
  1. Commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
    "These young people seemed to have followed an unwritten law: do not burgle houses from those in the same economic state";
    - burglarize [N. Amer], burglarise [Brit], heist [informal]

Derived forms: burgled, burgles, burgling

Type of: rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], steal

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