Robbery Synonyms

rŏbə-rē
The act or crime of taking another's property unlawfully and by force
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. holdup
  2. heist
  3. stickup

Words Related to Robbery

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Robbery Sentence Examples

  • Robbery and pillaging continue.

  • The brethren were aided in old age, sickness and poverty, often also in cases of loss by robbery, shipwreck and conflagration; for example, any member of the gild of St Catherine, Aldersgate, was to be assisted if he "fall into poverty or be injured through age, or through fire or water, thieves or sickness."

  • Robbery is not permitted to anybody now a days! shouted the publican, picking up his cap.

  • Thus gang robbery is apt to break out, gains head with rapidity, and is suppressed with difficulty.

  • He doesn't believe it was a robbery.

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