English words starting with rob

Meanings of Rob:

verb

Take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force.

Usage examples:

He tried, with three others, to rob a bank

Meanings of Rob peter to pay paul:

phrase

Take something away from one person to pay another; discharge one debt only to incur another.

Usage examples:

Mainstream funding for the college was a case of robbing peter to pay paul, reducing the budget all…

idiom

To borrow money from one person to pay back money you borrowed from someone else

Meanings of Robalo:

noun

Any of several snooks (genus centropomus, family centropomidae) occurring in the gulf of mexico; especially the common c. undecimalis, a large edible game fish often found in brackish water.

Meanings of Robalos:

noun

Any of several snooks (genus centropomus, family centropomidae) occurring in the gulf of mexico; especially the common c. undecimalis, a large edible game fish often found in brackish water.

Meanings of Roband:

noun

Chiefly in plural. a piece of small rope passed through eyelet-holes in the head of a sail and used to secure the sail to the yard above.

Meanings of Robands:

noun

Chiefly in plural. a piece of small rope passed through eyelet-holes in the head of a sail and used to secure the sail to the yard above.

Meanings of Robbed:

verb

Take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force.

Usage examples:

He tried, with three others, to rob a bank

Past simple and past participle of rob

Meanings of Robber:

noun

A person who commits robbery.

Usage examples:

In one version the bandits and their boss join the imperial forces and from then on fight robbers a…

Meanings of Robberies:

noun

The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.

Usage examples:

He was involved in drugs, extortion, and robbery

Meanings of Robbers:

noun

A person who commits robbery.

Usage examples:

In one version the bandits and their boss join the imperial forces and from then on fight robbers a…

Meanings of Robbery:

noun

The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.

Usage examples:

He was involved in drugs, extortion, and robbery

Meanings of Robbin:

noun

Chiefly in plural = roband .

Meanings of Robbing:

verb

Take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force.

Usage examples:

He tried, with three others, to rob a bank

Present participle of rob

Meanings of Robbins:

noun

Chiefly in plural = roband .

Meanings of Robe:

noun

A long, loose outer garment reaching to the ankles.

Usage examples:

A young man in a fez and ragged robe

verb

Short for lap robe.

Meanings of Robed:

adjective

Wearing a robe or long, loose outer garment.

Usage examples:

A circle of robed figures

verb

Clothe in a robe or long, loose outer garment.

Usage examples:

The chamberlain robed the king on coronation day

Meanings of Robeless:

adjective

Lacking or without a robe or robes. also figurative: uncovered, bare.

Meanings of Rober:

noun

A person responsible for looking after, or investing another person in, an official robe or robes.

Meanings of Robes:

noun

A long, loose outer garment reaching to the ankles.

Usage examples:

A young man in a fez and ragged robe

verb

Short for lap robe.

Meanings of Robinet:

noun

A kind of small cannon. compare rabinet historical in later use.

Meanings of Robing:

verb

Clothe in a robe or long, loose outer garment.

Usage examples:

The chamberlain robed the king on coronation day

noun

A long, loose outer garment reaching to the ankles.

Usage examples:

A young man in a fez and ragged robe

Meanings of Robinia:

noun

A north american tree or shrub of a genus that includes the false acacia.

Usage examples:

Last summer our glorious 25 ft-high golden robinia had to be cut down to a foot-high stump and the …

Meanings of Robins:

noun

A small old world thrush related to the chats, typically having a brown back with red on the breast or other colourful markings.

Usage examples:

Migrating from northern europe to the iberian peninsula's cork forests are blackcaps, finches, robi…

Meanings of Robinson:

adjective

Used to describe a machine that is very cleverly made and is complicated in a silly or humorous way, but has no practical use

Usage examples:

A heath robinson contraption

Meanings of Roble:

noun

Any of various latin american and californian trees having hard, heavy wood used for construction, shipbuilding, etc.; especially (a) the valley oak of california, quercus lobata; (b) the central and south american timber tree platymiscium pinnatum (family fabaceae); (c) a west indian species of catalpa, c. longissima (now rare); (d) (more fully "roble beech") a species of southern beech, nothofagus obliqua.