Synonyms of the word

robbery

• n. The act or practice of robbing.
• n. (law) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.

larceny

• n. (law) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
• n. (law) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.

looting

• n. The act of stealing during a general disturbance.
• v. present participle of loot.

pillage

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
• n. The spoils of war.
• n. The act of pillaging.

pillaging

• v. present participle of pillage.

plundering

• v. present participle of plunder.
• n. The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.

stealing

• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to steal.
• n. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) That which is stolen; stolen property.
• v. present participle of steal.

theft

• n. The act of stealing property.

thievery

• n. The act of theft, the act of stealing.
• n. (obsolete) That which is stolen.

thieving

• v. present participle of thieve.
• adj. That thieves; that steals.
• n. The action of theft.