Synonyms for robbery
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Plunder
plunder, stealing, looting, pillage, depredation, plundering, sack, spoliation, rapine, despoilment, spoil
Definitions
- n. 1
The act or practice of robbing.
- n. 2
The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
Related words
- Word family
- rob robber
- Phrases
- armed robbery highway robbery daylight robbery
Forms
- Plural
- robberies → stealings, lootings, pillages, depredations…
Example sentences
- stealing I caught Tom stealing some money out of my wallet.
- looting After the looting, the government ordered a curfew.
- plunder They lived for deeds of daring and plunder.
- pillage France began to pillage Algeria in 1830.
By length
- 4 letters
- sack1
- 5 letters
- theft1, spoil1
- 6 letters
- rapine
- 7 letters
- looting2, plunder2, larceny3, pillage2
- 8 letters
- stealing2, burglary3
- 10 letters
- plundering3, spoliation
- 11 letters
- depredation4, despoilment
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (looting2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- brigandage