burgle

[ bur-guhl ]

verb (used with or without object)

, bur·gled, bur·gling.

1. to burglarize.

burgle

/ ˈbɜːɡəl /

verb

1. to commit burglary upon (a house, etc)

Word History and Origins

Origin of burgle¹

First recorded in 1870–75; back formation from burglar

Example Sentences

Mr Rowlands assumed they were burgling a tobacco shop and the numbers referred to cigarettes.

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Grant previously claimed journalists had used private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house - NGN denied the claims against it.

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England cricket captain Ben Stokes says a masked gang burgled his home - when his wife and two children were there - while he was in Pakistan for the recent Test series.

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His DNA was found on fingerprints from the first property he burgled.

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He was also identified on footage as being at the forefront of a large mob who threw bricks at officers as well as damaging and burgling stores in Clayton Square.

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