Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“robs” is a form of

rob

UK /ɹɒb/ · US /ɹɑb/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms robs robbing robbed rhob rohob

  1. verb (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence. “He robbed three banks before he was caught.”
  2. verb (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. “The best way to rob a bank is to own one.”
  3. verb (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of). “Working all day robs me of any energy to go out in the evening.”
  4. verb (transitive, slang) To burgle.
  5. verb (transitive, UK, slang) To steal. “That bloke robbed my phone!”
  6. verb (intransitive) To commit robbery.
  7. verb (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
  8. noun A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes.
  9. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Robert and Robin.
  10. proper noun (rare compared to the pet form) A surname transferred from the given name, derived from Robert.
  11. noun (photography) Region of background (in digital images).

Synonyms

overcharge soak surcharge gazump fleece plume pluck hook

Etymology

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.

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).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. [Written also rhob, and rohob.]
  2. verb To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.
  3. verb To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.
  4. verb To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.

Etymology [F.; cf. Sp. rob, It. rob, robbo, Pg. robe, arrobe, Ar. rubb, robb, Per. rub.]

Etymology [OF. rober, of German origin; cf. OHG. roub, G. rauben, and OHG. roub robbing, booty, G. raub. sq. root114. See Reave,and cf. Robe.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rob”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “rob” (best matches first).

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