burglar
/ˈbɝɡlɚ/ verb C2- To commit burglary.
He/she/it burglars · Past burglared · Past participle burglared · -ing form burglaring
Verb forms
- Base form
- burglar
- He/she/it
- burglars
- Past
- burglared
- Past participle
- burglared
- -ing form
- burglaring
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When Marilla went out that evening to bring the cows from the back pasture, Matthew, who had been hanging about the barns and watching, slipped into the house with the air of a burglar and crept upstairs.
“The burglar, sir.
“Your last remark,” said Holmes, presently, “as to the possibility of there being an understanding between the burglar and the servant, and this being a note of appointment from one to the other, is an ingenious and not entirely impossible supposition.
“Well, it seems to me that it is just possible that the arrival of this poor fellow William was not before, but after, the entrance of the burglar into the house.
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