All robbery synonyms

noun robbery

• depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
• holdup — a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
• freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
• felony — an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year.
• banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
• heist — a robbery or holdup: Four men were involved in the armored car heist.
• larceny — the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.
• despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
• housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
• nicking — a small notch, groove, chip, or the like, cut into or existing in something.
• mugging — a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
• break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
• looting — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
• burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
• breaking and entering — (formerly) the gaining of unauthorized access to a building with intent to commit a crime or, having committed the crime, the breaking out of the building
• break and entry — breaking and entering.
• armed robbery — a robbery that is carried out by people carrying guns