Do we say burgle or burglarize

burgle 11 occurrences

Get rid of the servants, Hill, and we'll burgle his house.

To get Fred to burgle Sir Horace's house!

He sends for Hill, whom he had known in gaol, and whom he hadn't seen since, to confide in him that it is his intention to burgle his employer's house.

Why did he want Hill's assistance to burgle a practically unprotected house?

"And has it been your experience among criminals, Rolfe, that a burglar must have a plan of the place he intends to burgle, and that to get this plan he will give himself away to any man who can supply it?

Hill had told them that he had tried to dissuade the prisoner from going to Riversbrook to burgle the premises, because his master had returned unexpectedly; Fanning had told them that the prisoner was in favour of postponing the crime, but that Hill had urged him to carry it out.

Kemp declared that the reason he had declined to have anything to do with the project to burgle Riversbrook was that he felt sure Hill would squeak if the police threatened him when they came to investigate the burglary.

Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.

Permit me, therefore, to bless your house by the passage of my beautiful boots; that I may burgle the house next door.

Might as well my mansion burgle, As "row" me forcibly out of my money.

"E.T. There once was a lonesome, lorn spinster, And luck had for years been ag'inst her; When a man came to burgle She shrieked, with a gurgle, "Stop thief, while I call in a min'ster!" SPITE Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more aggraviting than if you spoke right out at once.

burglarize 5 occurrences

The speakers and writers on whom you may rely will not say "to burglarize," "to suspicion," "to enthuse," "plenty rich," "real tired," "considerable discouraged," "a combine," or "humans."

If I had for one instant imagined you cared enough about it to burglarize my rooms ...

It is absurd to say that one inherits the tendency to rob or rape or burglarize or kill.

| | Brand-new words which have not become | established in good use: as, "burglarize," | "enthuse," "electrocute.

Burglarize, 10.

Do we say   burgle   or  burglarize