What does burgle mean?
Burgle means (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To commit burglary..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈbɜːɡl̩/ · verb
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To commit burglary..
In St. Louis, burglars burgle by daylight
The New York World has coined a new verb -- "to burgle."
The language grows apace. A "cablegram" has been received, and $400 have been "burgled."
Burgled his safe and bolted with the tin.
[S]he went and burgled three pears out of the dish ...
Conceive the Great Lexicographer admitting to his Dictionary such excrescencies as: "Burgle, verb active, To break into a dwelling-house,"
Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism. ... The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle.
When an American says, "I've been burgled" -- where an Englishman would say, "My house has been broken into by thieves" -- he succeeds in shortening the statement by more than half ...
Use burgle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Burgle means (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To commit burglary..
Common synonyms include burglarize, heist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In St. Louis, burglars burgle by daylight
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.