burgle
Other forms: burgled; burgling; burgles
When you burgle, you steal something from inside a house or a building. A computer thief might burgle several laptops after sneaking into a school at night.
It's common to use to verb burgle in Britain, while in the United States people are more likely to say burglarize. Both words basically means "to steal from inside a building." If you burgle and are caught, the crime you'll be charged with is called "burglary." Burgle has been in use since the 1860s, when it was a jokey, colloquial word based on burglar, with its Latin root of burgare, "to break open."
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commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwellingsynonyms: burglarise, burglarize, heisttype of:stealtake without the owner's consent
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