Rob

Definition: Rob

Rob

Verb

1. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner; "The burglars robbed him of all his money".

2. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.

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"Rob" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bright fame".

Date "rob" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Rob \Rob\, noun. [French; compare to Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, Arabic rubb, robb, Persian rub.]. (references)

Literature

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ROB

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Synonyms: Rob

Pulpiness

Noun: pulpiness. Adjective: pulp, taste, dough, curd, pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume.

Stealing

Verb: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.

Rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul; set a thief to catch a thief.

Wrong

Do wrong; Noun: be inequitable; Adjective: favor, lean towards; encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and take an ell, give an inch and take an mile; rob Peter to pay Paul.

Crosswords: Rob

Afrikaan (sea-dog, seal), Albanian (bondman, captive, cove, prisoner, Rob, serf, slave), Dutch (sea-dog, seal), French (rubber), Romanian (bondsman, creature, prisoner, slave), Scottish (Robert), Serbo-Croatian (bondservant, bondslave, chattel, galley slave, helot, mameluke, menial, slave, thrall, villein), Swedish (robe).

Maybe I should rob the FoodWay so they'll send me home (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Steal, swindle, rob. Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos (Trouble in Paradise; writing credit: Aladar Laszlo; Grover Jones)

We came here to rob them and that's what we're gonna do -- beat their heads in, gouge their eyes out, slash their throats (We're No Angels; writing credit: Albert Husson; Ranald MacDougall)

Oh oh, and I met a guy. Rob Rothman (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Yeah, I rob now. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

To rob the cradle of love (CRADLE OF LOVE; performing artist: Billy Idol)

And every guy in the parking lot wants to rob me of my girl (Lady; performing artist: D'Angelo)

And ROB neighbors in the night creep, creep (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris)

Yeah what, Rob do the mix, tape to JL (Freakin It; performing artist: Will Smith)

One More Train to Rob (1971)

The Highland Rogue Rob Roy (1953)

Rob Roy (1922)

How They Rob Men in Chicago (1900)

The Rob Nelson Show (2002)

Smooth (performing artist: Santana featuring Rob Thomas)

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Books

• A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe (reference)

• Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy (reference)

• Chrysler Performance Upgrades: Edited by David Wright ; Produced by Tamara Baechtel ; Wiring Diagrams & Charts, Rob McCall ; By Frank Adkins) (reference)

• Entrepreneur America: Lessons from Inside Rob Ryan's High-Tech Start-Up Boot Camp (reference)

• From Glencoe to Stirling: Rob Roy, the Highlanders & Scotlands Chivalric Age (Tales of a Scottish Grandfather 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rob Mathes - Christmas Is Coming (reference)

• Rob Roy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Let Yourself Go with Rob Fisher and the Coffee Club Orchestra (reference)

• Rob Roy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack From The Film [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Maj. Rob Landers, National Missile Defense Operation Test Agency mission director for Battle Planning Exercise 00-4, points out information on the NMD Automated Battle Manager for Canadian Forces Maj. Gen. David Bartram, NORAD's director of operations. (C.

This new nozzleless sprayer uses one-half to two-thirds less spray to achieve superior coverage and penetration of the tree canopy. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Rob Flynn..

Plant physiologist George Yelenosky records data as Kim Ruhle Paschall, a science teacher at Orlando's Southwest Middle School, measures citrus fruit diameters. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Rob Flynn..

On the 300-square-mile Jornada Experimental Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico, technicians rob Dunlap (left) and John Smith round up cattle the time-honored way. High-tech equipment may make roundups easier in the future. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

This boy is Rob. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't choke & rob workers of the right to strike : so-called voluntary arbitration, a trap for the worker : oppose arbitration tribunal!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Thus a thief, whom I cannot harm, but by appeal to the law, for having stolen all that I am worth, I may kill, when he sets on me to rob me but of my horse or coat; because the law, which was made for my preservation, where it cannot interpose to secure my life from present force, which, if lost, is capable of no reparation, permits me my own defence, and the right of war, a liberty to kill the aggressor, because the aggressor allows not time to appeal to our common judge, nor the decision of the law, for remedy in a case where the mischief may be irreparable. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Rob each other without remorse of your beloved

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Health

Over time, diarrhea can rob you of vitamins and minerals. (references)

Civil Liberties

Algeria

Armed groups intercept citizens at roadblocks, often using stolen police uniforms and equipment in various regions to rob them of their cash and vehicles. (references)

Economic History

Chad

War and rebellions have continued to plague Chad in recent years, as they have since 1965. Following Idriss Deby's rise to power, Habre loyalists continued to fight government troops and rob civilians around Lake Chad. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

The officers allegedly were trying to rob the boy's family of money that they had just withdrawn from a cash machine. (references)

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Expressions using "rob": rob oneself ♦ rob out ♦ rob Peter to pay Paul ♦ rob roy ♦ rob the cradle. Additional references.

Beginning with "rob": rob-goblin.

Afrikaans

berowe, beroof (deprive, deprive ... of). (various references)

Albanian

Rob (bondman, captive, cove, prisoner, serf, slave), Zhvat (bleed, cadge, claw back, coax, devour, extort, filch, fleece, hog, spoil, squeeze, Winkle, worm, wrest), Zhduk (bump off, conceal, disperse, efface, eradicate, hide, kill, obliterate, overturn, stave off, steal, wipe, wipe out), Vjedh (cop, Frisk, hook, lift, mooch, nobble, peculate, pilfer, pinch, prig, purloin, salvage, scrounge, snitch, steal, take away, thieve, walk off with), Plaçkit (depredate, despoil, forage, Harry, hijack, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, pirate, plunder, Raven, ravish, sack), Grabit (amputate, depredate, deprive, despoil, flay, fleece, loot, rabble, ransack, Raven, ravish, reave, reive, rent, rip off, sack, subtract), Grabis (break in, burgle, hold up, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey, prey upon, steal). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حرم (abridge, ban, be bereaved, be forbidden, bereave, contraband, debar, deny, deprive, disable, dispossess, divest, excommunicate, forbade, forbid, geld, interdict, inviolable, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, restrain, sacred, sanctuary, starve, suppress, wife), ‏سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rifle, robbery, sack, skin, spoil, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏إختلس (embezzle, misappropriate, palm, purloin, scrounge, siphon, snaffle, snatch, snitch, steal, subtilize), ‏أخذ بدون حق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Отнемам, Окрадвам, Ограбвам, Обирам (Nick), �"рабя (Harry, Raven), Извършвам Кражба, Извършвам �"рабеж. (various references)

Chinese 

盜 (a thief, bandit, plunder, robber, steal), 抢夺 (Robbed, Robbing), 搶劫 , 奪 (snatch). (various references)

Czech

Oloupit (bereave, despoil, rifle, strip), Okrást (pick, trim). (various references)

Danish

plyndre (plunder). (various references)

Dutch

stropen (plunder, skin), roven (plunder), plunderen (plunder), buitmaken (plunder). (various references)

Esperanto

rabi (plunder), prirabi, priŝteli. (various references)

Faeroese

ræna (plunder). (various references)

Farsi 

چاپیدن (Harry, Hurry, Loot, Plunder), لخت کردن (Doin, Harry, Pluck, Ransack, Rifle, Skin, Strip), ربودن (Abduct, Abstract, Bag, Betake, Get, Grab, Hook, Purloin, Ravish, Reave, Snatch, Steal, Usurp), دستبردزدن (Steal), دزدیدن (Embezzle, Peak, Picaroonp, Pick, Prig, Purloin, Rifle, Spoliate, Steal, Thieve). (various references)

Finnish

ryöstää (abduct, kidnap, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, plunder, sack). (various references)

French

Piller, ravir. (various references)

Frisian

rôve (plunder). (various references)

German

rauben (abduct, bereave, carry off, foray, heist, maraud, pillage, plunder, ravish, steal), berauben (bereave, bereaved, bereft, deprive, despoil, plunder, to deprive, to despoil), plündern (despoil, foray, Harry, loot, looting, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle, sack, spoilt, strip, to despoil), ausrauben (draw off, withdraw, withdraw supports). (various references)

Greek 

ξεγυμνώνω (lay bare, rip off, show one's true colours, strip naked, strip off, undress), ληστεύω (despoil, hijack, hold up), Ληστεύω, ίλέβω (Frisk), ίλέπτω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ּלסטם, ּש�"ו�", ּשסות, ּקפח, ּחמוס, ּ�'זול, ּ�'� וב. (various references)

Hungarian

Rabol (pillage, to pill, to pillage, to rifle, to rob), Meglop (to frisk, to rob), Kirabol (loot, plunder, ransack, to burglarize, to despoil, to futz, to harry, to heist, to hold up, to loot, to mug, to pill, to pirate, to rifle, to rob, to sack, to spoil, waylay). (various references)

Indonesian

merampok (ransack, raven, rifle), menyambar (attack, swoop down and seize), menggaruk (clean out, rake, round up people), membegal (hijack), membatak. (various references)

Irish

robáil (robbed). (various references)

Italian

Derubare (steal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� める (to cheat, to graze, to hint, to pillage, to rob, to skim, to sweep over), 剥ぎ取る (to rob, to strip, to tear off), はぎ取る (achoo!, sneeze, to rob, to roll up, to strip, to tear off, to turn over). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かすめる (to cheat, to graze, to hint, to pillage, to rob, to skim, to sweep over), はぎとる (to rob, to strip, to tear off). (various references)

Korean 

약탈. (various references)

Manx

spooilley (booty, capture, despoil, despoliation, loot, pillage, plunder, plundering, prey, rape, ravage, ravaging, sack, spoil, undo as scheme), roostey (bare, debunk, deprive, exposure, hull, peel, peeling, rifle, rind, strip, strip of a girl, stripping, unbark). (various references)

Maya

okl (to rob). (various references)

Papiamen

roba (abstract, plunder, steal). (various references)

Pig Latin

obray.(various references)

Polish

okraść. (various references)

Portuguese

roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, grab, hold up, kidnap, loot, lurch, make away with, nab, picaroon, pick, pirate, plunder, prig, purloin, rifle, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), pilhar (depredate, despoil, forage, foray, harry, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey upon, ravage, raven, reave, reive, rifle). (various references)

Romanian

Rãpi (abduct, kidnap, lay open, rape, ravish, spirit, steal), Pungãşi (sharp), Prãda (despoil, flay, fleece, gut, knock off, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, ruin, sack, spoil), Jupui (abrade, bark, excoriate, flay, fleece, gall, graze, Harry, Peel, pill, raw, rip off, scratch, skin, soak, strip, wound), Jumuli (disrobe, fleece, pick, pick off, pluck, shave, shear), Jefui (burgle, flay, fleece, Harry, knock off, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, scathe, spoil), Devasta (desolate, devastate, forage, foray, gut, havoc, lay waste, play among havoc, play with havoc, ravage, reave, rummage, sack, wear away), Devaliza (loot, rifle, sack, strip), Buzunãri (pick pockets), Beli (bark, flay, fleece, skin). (various references)

Russian 

Отнимать, Обкрадывать, грабить роб, �"рабить (Harry, Raven), �"рабитель. (various references)

Scottish

spùinn (plunder, spoil), slad (booty, plunder, robbery, theft), creach (pillage, plunder). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukuvan voćni sok, ukrasti (filch, finger, lift, pilfer, purloin, snitch, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), pokrasti (clean out, steal), pljačkati (despoil, harry, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, prey upon, reive), otimati (plunder, reave, reive), opljačkati (burglarize, burgle, depredate, despoil, hold up, pillage, pirate, ransack, rifle, sack, scourge, stick up), obiti (burglarize, burgle), obijati (knock off, scutch), lišiti (abridge, cut off, deny, deprave, deprive, divest, free, rid, strip). (various references)

Spanish

Robar (abstract, burglarize, burgle, draw, pinch, pluck, remove, scrounge, steal, thieve, twist, walk away, walk off). (various references)

Swedish

röva (despoil, loot, maraud, pirate, plunder), råna (hold up, knock off, plunder, reive, roll), bestjäla (inspire), Roffa (plunder). (various references)

Thai

ปล้น (maraud, raid, raven, rifle). (various references)

Turkish

Zorla Almak (exact, extort, grab, rape, reave, snatch, squeeze, usurp, wrench, wrench smth. away from smb., wrench smth. from smb., wrest, wring), Yoksun Bırakmak (bereave, debar, debar from, deny, deprive, dispossess, forgo, shear), Soyup Soğana Çevirmek, Soymak (bare, bark, burglarize, burgle, clean out, decorticate, denude, deplume, despoil, disrobe, divest, flay, fleece, heist, hold up, housebreak, knock off, pare, Peel, pluck, plunder, pull off, rifle, rip off, roll, sack, shave, shear, skin, stick up, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), Soygun Yapmak (heist, pull a job), Hırsızlık Yapmak (break into, heist, steal, thieve), Çalmak (Nick). (various references)

Turkmen 

talamak (plunder). (various references)

Ukrainian

Красти, �"рабувати (Raven), �'ідбирати. (various references)

zuh. (various references)

decollatorum, decollatum, decollavi, decollavit, defraudat, defraudatus, defraudavi, defrauderis, despoliaverunt, detracta, detractaque, detractos, detraham, detrahas, detrahat, detrahe, detrahebant, detrahent, detrahentem, detrahentes, detrahentia, detrahentur, detrahere, detraherent, detraheret, detraheris, detrahes, detrahet, detrahetur, detrahit, detrahunt, detraxerint, detraxero, detraxerunt, detraxeruntque, detraxi, detraxisti, detraxistis, detraxit, harpagare, insidiator, insidiatorem, insidiatores, insidiatoribus, insidiatoris, praeda, praedaberis, praedabuntur, praedandum, praedare, praedaris, praedas, praedati, praedatio, praedationibus, praedatus, praedavit, praedo, privabit, privari, privata, privati, privavit, rapio, spolia, spoliabitis, spoliabitur, spoliabunt, spolians, spoliare, spoliassent, spoliasset, spoliasti, spoliata, spoliati, spoliatus, spoliaverunt, spoliavit, spolient, spolio. (various references)

bereofan, forstelan. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "rob": robalo, robalos, roband, robands, robbed, robber, robberies, robbers, robbery, robbin, robbing, robbins, robe, robed, robes, robin, robing, robins, roble, robles, roborant, roborants, robot, robotic, robotically, robotics, robotism, robotisms, robotization, robotizations, robotize, robotized, robotizes, robotizing, robotries, robotry, robots, robs, robust, robusta, robustas, robuster, robustest, robustious, robustiously, robustiousness, robustiousnesses, robustly, robustness, robustnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "rob": carob, heartthrob, outthrob, throb. (additional references)

Words containing "rob": acrobat, acrobatic, acrobatically, acrobatics, acrobats, aerobatic, aerobatics, aerobe, aerobes, aerobia, aerobic, aerobically, aerobicize, aerobicized, aerobicizes, aerobicizing, aerobics, aerobiological, aerobiologies, aerobiology, aerobioses, aerobiosis, aerobium, aerobrake, aerobraked, aerobrakes, aerobraking, algaroba, algarobas, algarroba, algarrobas, anaerobe, anaerobes, anaerobic, anaerobically, anaerobioses, anaerobiosis, antimicrobial, antimicrobials, approbate, approbated, approbates, approbating, approbation, approbations, approbatory, araroba, ararobas, arroba, arrobas, astrobiologies. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Croob, droob, eob, frob, groob, krob, Krobo, orba, oreb, orib, Rabb, rabh, Raob, rbo, recb, recbc, Repb, rewb, rfb, rgb, ribh, rilb, rlo, ro, roa, roab, roba, robb, robbo, robbt, robi, robo, Robt, Robu, rof, rog, roh, roi, roib, roj, rok, romb, roo, roob, rooba, roq, rorbu, rou, roub, rov, rox, roz, Rubb, rubu, ruhbc, ruib, ryb, trob, urbo. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bro, orb.

-1 letter: bo, or.

+1 letter: boar, boor, bora, bore, born, bort, brio, broo, bros, brow, forb, orbs, orby, robe, robs, sorb.

+2 letters: abhor, abort, arbor, baron, bevor, board, boars, boart, bolar, boner, boors, boral, boras, borax, bored, borer, bores, boric, borne, boron, borts, borty, bortz, bourg, bourn, bower, boxer, boyar, bravo, brios, broad, brock, broil, broke, brome, bromo, bronc, brood, brook, broom, broos, brose, brosy, broth, brown, brows, burro, carbo, carob, cobra, corby, dobra, dobro, forbs, forby, labor, lobar, omber, ombre, orbed, orbit, oribi, probe, rebop, rhomb, robed, robes, robin, roble, robot, sober, sorbs, tabor, throb, turbo.