Burgled
to burglarize.
Contemporary Examples
The Calamitous Castros: What We Know About Ariel Castro’s Brothers and Mother Steve Miller May 8, 2013
Historical Examples
Good Old Anna Marie Belloc Lowndes
Harding’s luck E. [Edith] Nesbit
The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown
Chronicles of Martin Hewitt Arthur Morrison
Tabitha’s Vacation Ruth Alberta Brown
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) Elbert Hubbard
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 Various
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes A. Conan Doyle
An Old English Home S. Baring-Gould
verb
to commit burglary upon (a house, etc)
v.
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