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cat-burgle

cat-burgle verb: synonym of cat-burglar (“to burglarize like a cat burglar”).

Verb

cat-burgle (third-person singular simple present cat-burgles, present participle cat-burgling, simple past and past participle cat-burgled)

  1. (rare) Synonym of cat-burglar (“to burglarize like a cat burglar”).
    Synonyms:
    cat-burglar

Synonyms of cat-burgle

Forms of cat-burgle

third-person singular presentcat-burgles
present participlecat-burgling
past participlecat-burgled
pastcat-burgled

Origin of cat-burgle

Back-formation from cat burglar.

Questions about cat-burgle

What does cat-burgle mean?
Cat-burgle means synonym of cat-burglar (“to burglarize like a cat burglar”).
What part of speech is cat-burgle?
Cat-burgle is a verb.
What is the past tense of cat-burgle?
The past tense of cat-burgle is cat-burgled.

Words near cat-burgle in the dictionary

  1. cat-burglarize
  2. cat-burglarized
  3. cat-burglarizes
  4. cat-burglarizing
  5. cat-burglars
  6. cat-burgle
  7. cat-burgled
  8. cat-burgles
  9. cat-burgling
  10. cat-call
  11. cat-called

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