ROB

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rob verb A. tranzitiv

1. a jefui, a prăda, a fura, a şterpeli;

to rob Peter to pay Paul a face o gaură ca să astupi alta.

2. a escroca.

3. a scoate (minereu) prea mult, a jefui, a stoarce (o mină, o carieră etc.)

rob verb B. intranzitiv

a face jaf.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was "fancy starch" that robbed them of their hard-won minutes.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“But I do not feel calm; I could kill the man who robbed me,” he interrupted.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

“Why did you rob me of my last consolation? I relied on your innocence, and although I was then very wretched, I was not so miserable as I am now.”

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was robbed at first setting out, and have walked all the way, and have never slept in a bed since I began the journey.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement! and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Robbed?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bright-eyed girls are quick to see such traits, and will like you all the better for them, and if death, almost the only power that can part mother and son, should rob you of yours, you will be sure to find a tender welcome and maternal cherishing from some Aunt Priscilla, who has kept the warmest corner of her lonely old heart for 'the best nevvy in the world'.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Soon after this, the general found himself obliged to go to London for a week; and he left Northanger earnestly regretting that any necessity should rob him even for an hour of Miss Morland's company, and anxiously recommending the study of her comfort and amusement to his children as their chief object in his absence.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I have been always used to a very small income, and could struggle with any poverty for him; but I love him too well to be the selfish means of robbing him, perhaps, of all that his mother might give him if he married to please her.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

By God, I’ll not be robbed of my boat by any storm that ever blew out of hell! he shouted, and though we four stood with our heads together that we might hear, his voice seemed faint and far, as though removed from us an immense distance.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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