verb
- to enter a building illegally and steal things from it
Usage: primarily American English
Examples
- Someone burglarized our house while we were on vacation.
- The store was burglarized three times last month.
- Police arrested two men who had burglarized several apartments.
- They burglarized the office and stole computers and cash.
- The family returned home to find their house had been burglarized.
- Security cameras helped identify who burglarized the warehouse.