rob

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rob/rɒb/

▶verb (robs, robbing, robbed)

• 1 take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force.

  ■ informal or dialect steal (something).

  ■ informal overcharge.

• 2 (rob someone of) deprive someone of (something needed or deserved).

– phrases
rob Peter to pay Paul deprive one person of something in order to pay another. [prob. with ref. to the saints and apostles Peter and Paul.]

– derivatives
robber noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. rober, of Gmc origin; rel. to reave.