robbing

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English

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Verb

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robbing

  1. present participle and gerund of rob

Noun

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robbing (countable and uncountable, plural robbings)

  1. robbery
    • 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World, page 141:
      Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.

Middle English

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Noun

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robbing

  1. Alternative form of robbynge