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rob verb [ rɒb ]

• take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force.
• "he tried, with three others, to rob a bank"
Similar: steal from, mug, jump, roll, clip, cheat, swindle, defraud, fleece, dispossess, bilk, do out of, con out of, rook out of, skin, steal someone blind, stiff, mulct,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French rober, of Germanic origin; related to the verb reave.

rob Peter to pay Paul

• take something away from one person to pay another; discharge one debt only to incur another.
"mainstream funding for the college was a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, reducing the budget all around for other colleges"



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