rob
A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes.
Noun
- A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes.
- [I]nſtead of Honey, Rob of Elder, Conſerve of Roſes, or Syrup of Violets; Glyſters, Pedilavia of emollient Decoctions with Nitre; or Elder, Vinegar, or Focus's of the ſame, applied with Sponges behind the Ears, to the...
- Also began to make wort from the malt and give it to such people as had symptoms of the scurvy; one of them indeed is highly scorbutick altho he has been taking of the rob for some time past without finding himself...
Origin
From Medieval Latin rob, from Arabic ربّ (“thickened fruit juice”). Compare French rob, Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, Persian ربودن (present stem: robâ).
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Verb
- To steal from, especially using force or violence.
- He robbed three banks before he was caught.
- To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
- The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
- I never robbed the soldiers of their pay. - 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London:...
- To deprive (of).
- Working all day robs me of any energy to go out in the evening.
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those...
- The railway is still vital to Jordan's export trade, but in spite of the poor quality of the road, diesel lorries are gradually robbing it of freight traffic, and anyone who can afford to fly does so rather than face...
- To burgle.
- Her house was robbed. - 2008 September 4, National Public Radio, All Things Considered:
- To steal.
- That bloke robbed my phone!
- To commit robbery.
- To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
- Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break. - 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
Origin
From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, from Late Latin raubāre, from Frankish *raubōn (compare Dutch roven) and Old High German roubōn, raubōn (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *raubōną. Doublet of reave.
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