Antonyms for mobbed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : mob

Phonetic Transcription : mɒb

Definition of mobbed

Origin : 1680s, "disorderly part of the population, rabble," slang shortening of mobile, mobility "common people, populace, rabble" (1670s, probably with a conscious play on nobility), from Latin mobile vulgus "fickle common people" (the phrase attested c.1600 in English), from mobile, neuter of mobilis "fickle, movable, mobile" (see mobile (adj.)). In Australia and New Zealand, used without disparagement for "a crowd." Meaning "gang of criminals working together" is from 1839, originally of thieves or pick-pockets; American English sense of "organized crime in general" is from 1927.
The Mob was not a synonym for the Mafia. It was an alliance of Jews, Italians, and a few Irishmen, some of them brilliant, who organized the supply, and often the production, of liquor during the thirteen years, ten months, and nineteen days of Prohibition. ... Their alliance -- sometimes called the Combination but never the Mafia -- was part of the urgent process of Americanizing crime. [Pete Hamill, "Why Sinatra Matters," 1998]
Mob scene "crowded place" first recorded 1922.

verb come upon by pushing; surround

Example sentences :

We were all but mobbed by the very people who had earlier slighted me.
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

One set of papers says he was mobbed, and the other that he made a hit.
Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton

I looked upon the narrow streets where Garrison was mobbed for my sake.
Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various

I don't want to be mobbed when they hear that I have the secret of the star-drive.
Extract from : « The Colors of Space » by Marion Zimmer Bradley

As for Tiny, she may not be mobbed, but she has one man in love with her after another.
Extract from : « The Californians » by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

With that I skips upstairs, and explains the mystery of our bein' mobbed.
Extract from : « Shorty McCabe on the Job » by Sewell Ford

He was also overbearing, and the people of Philadelphia mobbed him once.
Extract from : « Comic History of the United States » by Bill Nye

Several gentlemen were mobbed, and compelled to fling the cigars from their teeth.
Extract from : « Vittoria, Complete » by George Meredith

I would rather be mobbed than have my horse win at Newmarket.
Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill

When I was there, the elders had been mobbed so much that open-air meetings had been discontinued.
Extract from : « Memoirs of John R. Young » by John Young

Synonyms for mobbed

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