Definition of "rob"

rob¹

/ɹɔb/

verb
third-person singular simple present robs, present participle robbing, simple past and past participle robbed
1. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
2. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
  Quotations
  I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
  1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene v]
3. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
  Quotations
  Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
  1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915
4. (transitive, slang) To burgle.
  Quotations
  Her house was robbed.
  2008 September 4, National Public Radio, All Things Considered
5. (transitive, UK, slang) To steal.
6. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
7. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
  Quotations
  Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.
  2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14998317.stm Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos]”, in BBC Sport

rob²

/ɹɔb/

noun
uncountable
1. A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes.
  Quotations
  [I]nſtead of Honey, Rob of Elder, Conſerve of Roſes, or Syrup of Violets; Glyſters, Pedilavia of emollient Decoctions with Nitre; or Elder, Vinegar, or Focus's of the ſame, applied with Sponges behind the Ears, to the Armpits, Groins, Hams, &c. or with Barley-water and a little Roſe-vinegar.
  1749, [Thomas Short], “10th, Of Feverish Heat”, in A General Chronological History of the Air, volume II, T[homas] Longman, A[ndrew] Millar, pages 512–513
  Also began to make wort from the malt and give it to such people as had symptoms of the scurvy; one of them indeed is highly scorbutick altho he has been taking of the rob for some time past without finding himself benefited therefrom […] .
  1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 20 December

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