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To burglarize a place is to go into a building and steal things, usually when nobody is at home. You burglarize a house, a shop, a garage — a building, not a person. If someone snatches a bag from your hand in the street, that is not burglarizing. This is the usual American verb. In British English people say burgle for the same action, and some British speakers find burglarize heavy or ugly. US news uses it all the time: The apartment was burglarized on Tuesday. It is a little more formal than break in, but everyone understands it in American English.
闖空門；入室行竊
組成From burglar + -ize. First recorded in 1829. The -ize ending turns the person (the burglar) into a verb (to do what a burglar does).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
burglarizeverb/ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡləɹaɪz/
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To commit burglary.
- People who would now attempt to burglarize in top-boots, would be as mad as if they were to adopt that costume for picking pockets.
- [M]en exclaim against you as the most bungling of "cabbagers" ... that ever burglarised upon the property of Shakespeare!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。