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  • verb US Third-person singular simple present indicative form of burglarize.

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Examples

  • For instance, after the misanthropic Grinch sends Cindy Lou Who back to bed with a cup of water and a lie, he burglarizes her family blind.

    World According to Dr. Seuss Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • He gets into the house, he rapes the women, he burglarizes the home.

    CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010 2010

  • What would you think of a legal system in which someone burglarizes your house, yet you are required to sue yourself and are on the hook for the damage caused by the burglar?

    Lawrence W. Schonbrun: The Class Action's Frankenstein Status Confirmed Lawrence W. Schonbrun 2010

  • His characters range from a vicious petty criminal who burglarizes his father's house after his mother's funeral to a member of a gospel quartet ambivalent at seeing one of the churches they perform in burned to ashes.

    Heels. 2009

  • “I know I am old fashioned in feeling this way,” he said, “but somehow or other the idea of trying to be on friendly terms with the man who burglarizes your house or steals your property has never appealed to me as the soundest course that could be pursued toward him.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • “I know I am old fashioned in feeling this way,” he said, “but somehow or other the idea of trying to be on friendly terms with the man who burglarizes your house or steals your property has never appealed to me as the soundest course that could be pursued toward him.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • If someone burglarizes your home, who paid for what they steal?

    Helping Criminals Through NFLOC (Network of Families and Loved Ones of Criminals 2007

  • If someone burglarizes your home, who paid for what they steal?

    Helping Criminals Through NFLOC (Network of Families and Loved Ones of Criminals 2007

  • The White House "plumbers" unit - named for their orders to plug leaks in the administration - burglarizes a psychiatrist's office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

    Archive 2004-01-11 Maggie Jochild 2004

  • The White House "plumbers" unit - named for their orders to plug leaks in the administration - burglarizes a psychiatrist's office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

    BOOMER QUIZ, HISTORICAL TIMELINE, ANSWERS Maggie Jochild 2004

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