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rauben — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • heist noun A robbery, especially a carefully planned one targeting a bank, museum, or similar institution.
  • ravish verb To fill someone with intense delight or joy.
  • reave verb To steal or carry off goods, often violently.
  • rob verb To take property from a person or place unlawfully, often through force or threat.
  • steal verb To take something that belongs to someone else without permission or intention of returning it.

Senses

rauben is used for these senses in English:

  • heist (transitive) To steal, rob, or hold up (something).
  • ravish (archaic, or, literary) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
  • reave (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
  • rob (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
  • steal (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
  • steal (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.

heist — full definition

  1. noun A robbery, especially a carefully planned one targeting a bank, museum, or similar institution.
  2. noun A movie or story genre built around the planning and execution of a robbery.
  3. verb To steal or rob, especially in a bold or organized way.

ravish — full definition

  1. verb To fill someone with intense delight or joy.
  2. verb An older, formal word meaning to rape or sexually assault.
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