burglarize

Definition

To commit burglary.

Etymology

From burglar + -ize (1829).

Example Sentences

• "People who would now attempt to burglarize in top-boots, would be as mad as if they were to adopt that costume for picking pockets."
• "[M]en exclaim against you as the most bungling of "cabbagers" ... that ever burglarised upon the property of Shakespeare!"
• "In this dilemma there were but two resources open to the infuriated stewards, -- one to carry the key vi et armis; the other, to burglarize the cellar."

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