🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
BNC: 15869 COCA: 38599

burgle

verb

bur·​gle ˈbər-gəl How to pronounce burgle (audio)
burgled; burgling ˈbər-g(ə-)liŋ How to pronounce burgle (audio) ; burgles

transitive verb

: to break into and steal from (a home, business, etc.) : burglarize
One area resident tells Newsweek her house had been burgled a few years ago while she and her husband were inside. Jeff Stein

intransitive verb

: to commit robbery
Clearly, the more often a man … burgles, the more likely he is to get caught. The Economist
While the law is a disincentive, the main reason most of us don't kill, punch or burgle is that we think it's wrong and consequently prefer not to. David Mitchell

Synonyms

Example Sentences

someone burgled the lab when no one was there and let the animals out of their cages the neighbors returned from vacation to find that their house had been burgled
Recent Examples on the Web Todd’s Ice, located near Genova’s in the 140 Village Shopping Center in Westminster, has also been burgled — and more than once — according to owner Todd Asplen. Jon Kelvey, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 28 Aug. 2019 The unexpected disarray could have been the sign of a struggle, but Swearingen chalked it up to a break-in, and later filed a police report saying his home had been burgled while he was gone. Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2019 It was later revealed to belong to a MPD officer whose home was burgled in May this year. Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al, 14 Aug. 2019 More recently came the Bling Ring, eight well-off young adults from Southern California who burgled jewels from the homes of a handful of young celebrities, including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Megan Fox. Eric Konigsberg, Town & Country, 12 Apr. 2018 Russia has more than twice the number of intentional homicides than the US, but Americans are over five times more likely to be burgled and over 14 times more likely to be assaulted, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Henrik Pettersson, CNN, 14 Mar. 2018 West Brom winger James McClean has caused a stir on social media by lambasting a Twitter troll who revelled in the fact that he was recently burgled. SI.com, 7 Jan. 2018 He is also charged with burgling Woods' apartment two weeks earlier, court records show. Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 5 Jan. 2018 He was charged under the Espionage Act and faced 115 years imprisonment, but the case ended in a mistrial because the government illegally gathered evidence (by, among other tactics, burgling his psychiatrist’s office). Sam Roberts, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from burglar

First Known Use

1867, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of burgle was in 1867

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime