the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (transitive)] > seize by robbery (3)
transitive. To deprive or strip (a person or group of people) of something by force, to rob; (also) to despoil. Also figurative. rare after 17th cent.
transitive. To take (something) unlawfully; to steal. Also with †of, from: to steal (something) from. Now chiefly colloquial and regional.
to rob (with violence); to steal.