Burgle
to burglarize.
Historical Examples
In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing
The Tinted Venus F. Anstey
All Things Considered G. K. Chesterton
Marriage la mode Mrs. Humphry Ward
A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete Gilbert Parker
Red Money Fergus Hume
Augustus Does His Bit George Bernard Shaw
The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work Mary Rogers Miller
Peck’s Sunshine George W. Peck
verb
to commit burglary upon (a house, etc)
v.
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