burgle

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˈbɜːɡəl/

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Verb

Plain form burgle

Third-person singular burgles

Past tense burgled

Past participle burgled

Present participle burgling

1. (transitive) If you burgle a home, you enter it and steal things from it.

   The two men on bikes burgled that house.

Related words

• burglary
• burglar