verb
- to enter a building illegally and steal things from it
Usage: chiefly British
Examples
- Someone burgled their house while they were on vacation.
- The shop was burgled twice last month.
- Police are investigating who burgled the office building.
- They discovered their apartment had been burgled when they returned home.
- The thieves burgled several homes in the neighborhood.
- Security cameras caught the suspects trying to burgle the store.