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Definition of dacoit in English: dacoitnoun dəˈkɔɪtdəˈkoit (in India or Burma (Myanmar)) a member of a band of armed robbers. Example sentencesExamples - Acharya Vinoba Bhave, a keen Gandhian and social reformer, convinced the dacoits terrorising the Chambal ravines to give up arms in 1960, signifying the victory of non-violence.
- Back in 1790, a caravan of Persian carpet weavers, on their way to the Mughal court, was waylaid and injured by dacoits on the Great Deccan Road.
- Since the entire Chambal area is notorious for dacoits and robbers' gangs, safety in traveling must be ensured beforehand.
- In most successful democracies voters are discerning enough to not vote for crooks, dacoits and murderers.
- Near Hebbal lake, a gang of around five highway dacoits attacked two businessmen and sped away in their cars a few days ago.
- In 1959, an Inspector-General of Police killed the dangerous dacoit, Gabbar Singh, in an encounter in the Chambal ravines of Madhya Pradesh.
- Singh might have forgotten his own murky past as a dacoit, but the law had not.
- Majeed was a dacoit and had committed various crimes in his area.
- The Pakistani Army is arriving to wipe out the dacoits, and the clock is running out for everyone involved.
- Asre was a dacoit operating in the Chambal Valley and was responsible for several cases of murder, robbery and abduction in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
- On Sunday night, dacoits looted valuables worth over Rs 1 lakh from a house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar after assaulting the aged residents.
- The once young manservant of our house recognized me immediately, for I had spent hours in his room listening to stories of a fearsome dacoit.
- This valley was recently the territory of a famous dacoit, or highway robber, named Mohammad Khan.
- At the last count, dacoits have targeted as many as seven passenger trains passing through Bihar, the latest incident being on June 8 in Siwan district.
- In South India, roving bands of dacoits, carrying out their traditional depredations on the weak and unprotected, had been a part of the rural landscape for centuries.
- Valmiki was a killer dacoit who reformed, became a Sage and wrote the Sanskrit Ramayana, one of the great sacred scriptures of the world.
- ‘It looks like the dacoits did not expect the couple to wake up and resist them when they were robbing the house,’ a senior police officer said.
- From the start, the campaign to track down the notorious dacoit appears to have been brutal and inept.
- The judge said it was negligence on the part of the Karnataka state government not to take steps to arrest the forest dacoit and his colleagues.
- People residing in newly developed localities are easy target for dacoits.
Origin From Hindi ḍakait, from ḍakaitī 'robbery by a gang'. Rhymes adroit, Detroit, doit, droit, exploit, maladroit, quoit Definition of dacoit in US English: dacoitnoundəˈkoit A member of a band of armed robbers in India or Burma (Myanmar). Example sentencesExamples - Asre was a dacoit operating in the Chambal Valley and was responsible for several cases of murder, robbery and abduction in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
- The once young manservant of our house recognized me immediately, for I had spent hours in his room listening to stories of a fearsome dacoit.
- Near Hebbal lake, a gang of around five highway dacoits attacked two businessmen and sped away in their cars a few days ago.
- Back in 1790, a caravan of Persian carpet weavers, on their way to the Mughal court, was waylaid and injured by dacoits on the Great Deccan Road.
- Since the entire Chambal area is notorious for dacoits and robbers' gangs, safety in traveling must be ensured beforehand.
- People residing in newly developed localities are easy target for dacoits.
- From the start, the campaign to track down the notorious dacoit appears to have been brutal and inept.
- At the last count, dacoits have targeted as many as seven passenger trains passing through Bihar, the latest incident being on June 8 in Siwan district.
- In South India, roving bands of dacoits, carrying out their traditional depredations on the weak and unprotected, had been a part of the rural landscape for centuries.
- Majeed was a dacoit and had committed various crimes in his area.
- ‘It looks like the dacoits did not expect the couple to wake up and resist them when they were robbing the house,’ a senior police officer said.
- In 1959, an Inspector-General of Police killed the dangerous dacoit, Gabbar Singh, in an encounter in the Chambal ravines of Madhya Pradesh.
- The judge said it was negligence on the part of the Karnataka state government not to take steps to arrest the forest dacoit and his colleagues.
- This valley was recently the territory of a famous dacoit, or highway robber, named Mohammad Khan.
- Acharya Vinoba Bhave, a keen Gandhian and social reformer, convinced the dacoits terrorising the Chambal ravines to give up arms in 1960, signifying the victory of non-violence.
- The Pakistani Army is arriving to wipe out the dacoits, and the clock is running out for everyone involved.
- On Sunday night, dacoits looted valuables worth over Rs 1 lakh from a house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar after assaulting the aged residents.
- Singh might have forgotten his own murky past as a dacoit, but the law had not.
- In most successful democracies voters are discerning enough to not vote for crooks, dacoits and murderers.
- Valmiki was a killer dacoit who reformed, became a Sage and wrote the Sanskrit Ramayana, one of the great sacred scriptures of the world.
Origin From Hindi ḍakait, from ḍakaitī ‘robbery by a gang’. |