Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
verb (used with object), bur·glar·ized, bur·glar·iz·ing.
- to break into and steal from: Thieves burglarized the warehouse.
verb (used without object), bur·glar·ized, bur·glar·iz·ing.
- to commit burglary.
verb
- (tr) US and Canadian to break into (a place) and steal from (someone); burgle
1865, American English, from burglary + -ize. Related: Burglarized; burglarizing.
We see in a telegraphic despatch from across the boundary line that a store was “burglarized” a short time ago. We are sorry that any thing so dreadful should have happened to any of our inventive cousins. Truly the American language is “fearfully and wonderfully made.” [“Upper Canada Law Journal,” September 1865, p.228]
Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism. “The Yankeeisms donated, collided, and burglarized have been badly used up by an English magazine writer.” (Southern Magazine, April, 1871.) The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle. [Maximilian Schele De Vere, “Americanisms; The English of the New World,” 1872]