burglarize
/ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡləɹaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "People who would now attempt to burglarize in top-boots, would be as mad as if they were to adopt that costume for picking pockets."
- "[M]en exclaim against you as the most bungling of "cabbagers" ... that ever burglarised upon the property of Shakespeare!"
- "In this dilemma there were but two resources open to the infuriated stewards, -- one to carry the key vi et armis; the other, to burglarize the cellar."
- "Deaseley Brothers & Dodge, wholesale dry goods store, was burglarized last night, and three thousand dollars worth of silks taken. No arrests."
- "I also told you my house had been thoroughly burglarized three times,"
- "We see in a telegraphic despatch from across the boundary line that a store was "burglarized" a short time ago."
Etymology
From burglar + -ize (1829).