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Grammar : Verb
Spell : rob
Phonetic Transcription : rɒb



Definition of robbed

Origin :
  • late 12c., from Old French rober "rob, steal, pillage, ransack, rape," from West Germanic *rauba "booty" (cf. Old High German roubon "to rob," roub "spoil, plunder;" Old English reafian, source of the reave in bereave), from Proto-Germanic *raubon "to rob," from PIE *reup-, *reub- "to snatch" (see rip (v.)).
  • Lord, hou schulde God approve þat þou robbe Petur, and gif þis robbere to Poule in þe name of Crist? [Wyclif, c.1380]
  • To rob the cradle is attested from 1864 in reference to drafting young men in the American Civil War; by 1949 in reference to seductions or romantic relationships with younger persons. Related: Robbed; robbing.
  • verb steal, deprive
Example sentences :
  • Well, if all they say is true, the villain has robbed one of his own best friends.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • How, Mr. Tilden, how far is it to the cross-roads where the mail-carrier says he was robbed?
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • There had been a conspiracy against him; he was outwitted, robbed, befooled.
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • I did not think I was robbed; because the money, when we came to calculate, was all right.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • My husband once employed this Von Holzen, and was, I believe, robbed by him.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • He tells me that near Freistadtlein he was robbed and had twenty florins taken from him.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • But I submit—I have deserved it all—I have robbed her of a heart above all price.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • For her he had robbed the bees' nest that very day, and I had but partaken of the spoil.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • "I have been drugged and robbed," he replied, lowering his voice.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
  • I will go to London and say merely, 'The Russian police have robbed me.'
  • Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr

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