List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 335

SYNONYMS: rob, burglarize, filch, pilfer, plunder, loot, ransack, steal, thieve.
All these verbs mean to take property from another or valuables from a place.

Rob in its most common usage means to take property from another through fear, force, or violence; the term may also imply depriving another by fraud or stealth of property legally his.
Burglarize connotes entering a place to commit theft or another felony.
Filch and pilfer both imply stealth in taking small sums of money or petty objects.
Plunder in modern usage refers to robbery on a large scale; it also applies to pillaging by victorious troops or mobs; the term also applies to the systematic pilfering of funds or property by trusted persons.
Ransack pertains to a thorough search of a house or building by persons seeking to take valuable or desired articles.
Steal and thieve both apply to the practice of taking property or belongings surreptitiously and without permission; steal also an mean to appropriate another's ideas as one's own or to plagiarize.