robbed
SayROBD/ɹɑbd/UK/ɹɒbd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of rob.
Thieves robbed the bank in broad daylight and escaped within minutes.
The travelers had been robbed of everything before they reached the border.
Note
One spelling does double duty here. It serves the simple past (they robbed the bank) and also the participle behind passives and perfects (we had been robbed), with the b doubled before -ed. Its object is normally the victim, whether a person or a place, and what is taken follows with of: robbed of everything. Only in British slang does the stolen thing itself become the object, as it does with steal.
robbed is a form of rob
rob, verb: To steal from a person or place, especially by using force or threats. Full entry
- Spelling
- rob → robbed: double the b, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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