Word of the Day:
burgle
What It Means
To commit burglary.
Burgle in Context
“And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.”
Did You Know?
Back-formation from burglar (1867).
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: burgle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
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