Antonyms for robbed
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : rob |
| Phonetic Transcription : rÉ’b |
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
- 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
Synonyms for robbed
- abscond
- appropriate
- bereave
- break into
- burglarize
- burgle
- cheat
- con
- cop
- defalcate
- defraud
- despoil
- disinherit
- dispossess
- divest
- do out of
- embezzle
- filch
- heist
- hijack
- hold up
- hustle
- liberate
- lift
- loot
- lose
- mug
- oust
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- plunder
- promote
- purloin
- raid
- ransack
- relieve
- requisition
- rifle
- rip off
- roll
- sack
- scrounge
- snitch
- stick up
- strip
- strong-arm
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- thieve
- withhold
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