burgle

verb

1. 入室盗窃
   to enter a building illegally, usually using force, and steal from it
   1. We were burgled while we were away (= our house was burgled ) .
      我们外出时家里失窃了。
   2. The house next door was burgled.
      邻居家被盗了。

1. VERB 破门盗窃；入室盗窃
   If a building is burgled, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
   1. I found that my flat had been burgled...
      我发现我的公寓被盗了。
   2. I thought we had been burgled...
      我想我们被盗了。
   3. Two teenagers burgled the home of Mr Jones's mother.
      两个少年闯进了琼斯先生的母亲家里行窃。

in AM, use 美国英语用 burglarize

1. I found that my flat had been burgled
   我发现我的公寓被盗了。
2. I thought we had been burgled
   我想我们被盗了。
3. Two teenagers burgled the home of Mr Jones's mother.
   两个少年闯进了琼斯先生的母亲家里行窃。
4. He has also been plucked from a chimney where he became stuck while trying to burgle a house, and from the ceiling of a bank where he was pinned by a security device.
   此前，他在潜入一所住宅企图行窃时曾被困在了一座烟囱里，后被他人救出。
5. At night everybody would leave home with skeleton keys and shaded lanterns and go and burgle a neighbour's house.
   一到傍晚，他们手持万能钥匙和遮光灯笼出门，走到邻居家里行窃。
6. She thought they might be criminals come to burgle the house.
   她想他们可能是来撬窃房内东西的罪犯。
7. He can trespass, he can burgle.
   他可以到处乱闯，他可以偷。

verb

1. commit a burglary

   Synonym:    burglarizeburglariseheist