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burglarizing

burglarizing is the present participle and gerund of burglarize.

Meaning of burglarize

Verb

burglarize (third-person singular simple present burglarizes, present participle burglarizing, simple past and past participle burglarized)

  1. (Canada, US, ambitransitive) To commit burglary.
    • People who would now attempt to burglarize in top-boots, would be as mad as if they were to adopt that costume for picking pockets.1829 July 5, [[[w:William Hazlitt|William Hazlitt]]?], “The Advantages of Committing Burglary in cuerpo Elucidated”, in The Atlas, London, page 442
    Synonyms:
    burgle

Questions about burglarizing

What is burglarizing the present participle and gerund of?
Burglarizing is the present participle and gerund of burglarize.

Words near burglarizing in the dictionary

  1. burglarize
  2. burglarized
  3. burglarizer
  4. burglarizers
  5. burglarizes
  6. burglarizing
  7. burglarous
  8. burglarously
  9. burglarproof
  10. burglars
  11. burglary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burglarizing (page history and authors); burglarize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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