burgle

[bur-guhl]

verb (used with or without object)

burgled, burgling 

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

He also admitted burgling the site and stealing a mallet and power tools on the same night.

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Mr Rangarajan was not CEO when the hack happened but says that colleagues described the chaos of discovering the hackers as "feeling like you'd been burgled whilst still inside the house".

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In 2022, a Brink’s big rig transporting millions of dollars of jewelry was burgled at a Grapevine truck stop.

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A TV fell on him while he was burgling a house and he later spent six weeks in Birmingham's Winston Green prison after robbing a clothes shop.

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They could bug, burgle and listen to "subjects of interest", to use the jargon.

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