rob
verb (used with object)
to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
will rob
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future tenseof rob.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Thousands of villagers in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are protesting against a multi-million-dollar river-linking project which, they say, will rob them of their homes and livelihoods.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
His central insight is that fear of failure can pull you toward the neutral, unremarkable, defaulting call — and that is the worst call of all because it will rob you of self-respect.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2022
But it will rob the chamber of an institutional figure who has come to embody its traditions and the comity that defined it in a bygone era.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
“Some will rob you with a six gun, and some with a fountain pen.”
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2019
I will not claim any sacrifice," said De Morla, "unless so much as will rob thee of thy prejudices against this deluded people.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
