robbery

The act or an instance of unlawfully taking the property of another by the use of violence or intimidation.

The act or practice of robbing; a plundering; a pillaging; a taking away by violence, wrong, or oppression; the act of unjustly and forcibly depriving one of anything; specifically, in law, the felonious and forcible taking of the property of another from his person, or in his presence, against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear (Wharton).

Synonyms Depredation, spoliation, despoilment. See robber.

The act or practice of robbing; theft.

The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.