Rob vs Shoplift - What's the difference?
rob | shoplift |
(lb) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
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(lb) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
To deprive (of).
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*: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 pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To burgle.
*2008 , National Public Radio, All Things Considered , Sept 4, 2008
*:Her house was robbed .
(lb) To commit robbery.
(lb) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
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(obsolete) A shoplifter.
* 1704 , John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle , Athenian Society, Volume III,
To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.
* 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker ,
To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
* 1938 April, William Peery, Thank Rotary!'', ''The Rotarian ,
* 1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community'', '' ,
* 2002 November 25, The New Yorker ,
As verbs the difference between rob and shoplift
is that rob is while shoplift is to steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.As a noun shoplift is
(obsolete) a shoplifter.rob
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) robben, from (etyl) (compare English reave). More at (l).Verb
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Derived terms
* on the rob * rob Peter to pay Paul * robber * robbery * rob somebody blind * rob the cradleEtymology 2
(etyl); compare (etyl) rob, (etyl) rob, robbo, (etyl) robe, arrobe, and similar (etyl) and (etyl) words.Alternative forms
* rhob, rohobNoun
(-)Anagrams
* bor * bro * orb 1000 English basic words ----shoplift
English
(shoplifting)Noun
(en noun)page 67,
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Verb
(en verb)- She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
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- Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted , a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
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- Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc''., ''etc .
- In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift .