robar
steal ; rob ; raid ; thieve ; steal off ; pilfer ; filch ; break into ; break in ; mug ; plunder ; rifle ; snatch ; nick ; hold up.
In imposing penalties for book stealing libraries are particularly helpless.
This article contrasts a range of principles with the widely prevailing system of polygraphic marking which requires much manual, specialised work and which robs the resulting text of good visual presentation = This article contrasts a range of principles with the widely prevailing system of polygraphic marking which requires much manual, specialised work and which robs the resulting text of good visual presentation.
The article 'Raiding the World Bank' explains how the World Bank operates, shareholding, the initiation of loan proposals, and lending to education projects.
But it was no less misguided than the commonplace practice of setting passages thieved from literature for comprehension exercises.
I have nothing against Aussies but I do have something against parasites who steal off someone else's ideas .
In his work, Al pilfers fragments from a wide array of sources and glues them into collages.
Even in poems written directly out of his own experience, he is likely to use notions, phrases, and musical ideas filched from other recent poems.
A honeypot is a decoy computer system designed to look like a legitimate system an intruder will want to break into while, unbeknownst to the intruder, they are being covertly observed.
The hacker broke in on the university dial-in lines through the library system.
In that time, she relates, she had been mugged at gunpoint, punched in the face, and harassed.
Close on such paradeground excitements comes the popular sport of plundering for projects.
English, on the other hand, has been accused of waylaying other languages in dark alleys and rifling their pockets for loose vocabulary.
The thieves broke into the museum using a hydraulic jack and snatched both paintings in 3 minutes.
It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
The film starts with two small-time thieves who spontaneously decide to hold up a restaurant.
entrar a robar
burgle
burglerise [burglarize, -USA]
A pensioner who carried around her life savings because she was afraid of being burgled was mugged on the way home from a casino.
The hair salon didn't even have its grand opening before being burglarised.
robar a punta de pistola
hold up at + gunpoint
Someone told me that there was a 9 in 10 chance of getting shot if one is held up at gunpoint.
robar con allanamiento de morada
burgle
burglerise [burglarize, -USA]
A pensioner who carried around her life savings because she was afraid of being burgled was mugged on the way home from a casino.
The hair salon didn't even have its grand opening before being burglarised.
robar en una tienda
shoplift
He caught a kid shoplifting in his store, gave him a good cuff on the side of his head and kicked him out the door.
robar ganado
rustle + cattle
They also set fire to the steamboat and rustled all the cattle, hiding them in an underground cave covered by a waterfall.
robar la credibilidad
destroy + credence
If mistakes are made of probability, of language, of relationship then these must, in all but the simplest readers, destroy credence.
robarle el corazón a Alguien
steal + Posesivo + heart
The only way you'll know if you can steal his heart is if you have a few things in common and talk together.
robarle tiempo al sueño
burn + the candle at both ends
Americans are attempting to fit ever more into 24 hours, and many appear willing to 'burn the candle at both ends' to accomplish that.
robar mediante el alunizaje
ram raid
Thousands of pounds were stolen after a gang ram raided a cash machine in Cottingley.
robar por el método del alunizaje
ram raid
Thousands of pounds were stolen after a gang ram raided a cash machine in Cottingley.
robar protagonismo [De manera inesperada, sin ser lo previsto] [De manera inesperada, sin ser lo previsto]
steal + the limelight
steal + Posesivo + show
take + the wind out of + Posesivo + sails
steal + Posesivo + thunder
steal + Posesivo + scene
steal + the spotlight
Little in general is said about the retrieval side of the systems: document analysis has stolen the limelight.
The article is entitled 'Did Paris Steal the Show for American Library Innovations?'.
He then took the wind out of the sails of the political opposition two weeks ago when they had him on the run and he agreed to a general election.
She said some of the most hurtful things a person could say and it was all because she was afraid I was going to steal her thunder.
But once again her little sister, famous as Kate if not more, is stealing her scene.
It is her big screen debut tonight, so Katy Perry would have wanted to ensure nobody stole the spotlight.
robar un banco
rob + a bank
Police in Honduras say six of their own officers have been arrested for allegedly trying to rob a bank.
