What is another word for robbery?
195 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɹˈɒbəɹi], [ ɹˈɒbəɹi], [ ɹ_ˈɒ_b_ə_ɹ_i]Table of Contents
Similar words for robbery:- act (noun)
- break-in (noun)
- breaking and entering (noun)
- burglary (noun)
- crime (noun)
- depredation (noun)
- felony (noun)
- larceny (noun)
- looting (noun)
- stealing (noun)
- stickup (noun)
- theft (noun)
- thievery (noun)
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Synonyms for Robbery:
n.
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- give.
- second story works,
- second-story works,
- filchings,
- thievings,
- housebreakings,
- safecrackings,
- secondstory work,
- secondstory works,
- second story work,
- owl jobs.
Other synonyms:
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- stick up.
- vandalism,
- unbeloved,
- demolition,
- rape,
- grab,
- divest,
- disengage,
- booty,
- despoilment,
- devastation,
- Levelling,
- denial,
- Purloining,
- liberate,
- robe,
- despoliation,
- detract,
- privation,
- Plagiarizing,
- defilement,
- mischief,
- flay,
- damage,
- bereaved,
- cost,
- bereavement,
- lose,
- ripoff,
- lovelorn,
- violation,
- expense,
- dido,
- prey on,
- mortal sin,
- assault,
- taking,
- stripping,
- peculation,
- deprivation,
- ravages,
- Pirating,
- forfeit,
- cleave,
- vandalization,
- forfeiture,
- smash-and-grab,
- curtail,
- escapade,
- cattle lifting,
- Lifting,
- Filching,
- rip off,
- highway robbery,
- outrage,
- prank,
- lift,
- loss,
- assault and robbery,
- appropriation,
- ransacking,
- sticking up,
- abridge,
- holding up,
- starve,
- disembarrass,
- Divestment,
- plunder,
- poaching,
- Nicking,
- condense,
- shenanigan,
- rapine,
- burgling,
- destroy,
- deprive of,
- Robbing,
- Pocketing,
- rob,
- stunt,
- excoriate,
- bereave,
- razing,
- Swiping,
- vandalizing,
- deduct,
- sacrifice,
- job,
- spoil,
- dispossess,
- unlawful act,
- Freebooting,
- filch,
- seek,
- harry,
- losing streak,
- ravishment,
- bank robbery,
- rend,
- perdition,
- destruction,
- absolve,
- total loss,
- assist,
- grieving,
- debit,
- Pinching,
- despoil,
- Robberies,
- dispossession,
- detriment,
- relieve,
- loser,
- injury,
- Boosting,
- ravage,
- pull,
- colza,
- loot,
- wrongdoing,
- ravaging,
- sacking,
- expropriate,
- denudation,
- taking away,
- sorrowing,
- ravish,
- help,
- Asportation,
- losing,
- snitching,
- Despoiling,
- caper,
- High Jinks,
- marauding,
- Pilfering,
- deprive,
- shorten,
- ransack,
- ruin,
- Brigandage,
- lark,
- mugging,
- HIT,
- pinch,
- steal,
- buccaneering,
- sack.
Paraphrases for Robbery:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
burglary.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
theft.
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Noun, singular or mass
theft.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
rip-off.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
robber, rob, larceny, holdup, plunder, pillaging, Snatching, stickup, plundering, rustling, carjacking, abduction, assault, depredation, hijacking.
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Noun, singular or mass
Antonyms for Robbery:
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n.
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stealing
return.
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stealing
Homophones for Robbery:
- raver, Ruhr River, revery, repair, roper, ribier, robber, rover, reefer, refer, rubber, roofer, reverie, rebury, riparia, river, reappear, ripper, revere, Rob Roy, rubor, riviera, referee, reaper, rivera, repairer, Rapper, raper, rapier, River Aire, reviewer, rubbery.
Hypernym for Robbery:
n.
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act
heist, caper, highjacking, dakoity, rolling, job, stickup, hijacking, dacoity, highway robbery, rip-off, armed robbery, holdup.
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act