Synonyms for Burglary
ˈbɜr glə ribur·gla·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. burglarynoun

   entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property

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1. • Felony

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1. burglarynoun

   Synonyms:
   house-breaking (at night)

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1. burglarynoun

   Synonyms:
   housebreaking

   Associated words:
   burglarious

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1. List of paraphrases for "burglary":

   robbery, break-in, anti-burglary, theft, stickup

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1. Sheriff Rick Staly:

   This is a burglar, and somebody was in the house when he did the burglary which could have turned into a very serious and dangerous crime.

2. Zoe Lofgren:

   The president -- President Nixon's misconduct related to trying to use the levers of government to hide the Watergate burglary... President Trump misconduct had to do with trying to throw the election but at least it didn't involve involving other foreign nations, if you take a look at the -- what the founding fathers were concerned about, it was the interference by foreign governments in our political system that was one of the gravest concerns. Nixon's behavior didn't fall into that range. So in that way, this conduct is more serious.

3. Finley Peter Dunne:

   A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

4. Brent Weisberg:

   No final charging decisions have been made regarding the individuals identified as potential suspects in the burglary and theft.

5. Betsy Brantner-Smith:

   As a police officer for 29 years, I did everything from, dealt with mentally ill people … to negotiating people into letting their hostages go and talking to people out of killing themselves and delivering a baby, and tasering somebody 30 years younger than me through a neighborhood who just committed a burglary, and everything in between, in today's atmosphere, [there is] the expectation that police officers are going to have so much more specialty training, especially when we're talking about mental illness and and utilization of various different kinds of weapons and making sure that we're always exactly within policy and things like that.