robbed

verb

past tense of rob
as in burglarized
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully in jail for robbing a bank

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Recent Examples of robbed Between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the Musée du Président Jacques Chirac in the central French town of Sarran was robbed for the third time in less than a year, a French public prosecutor told local media outlet Ici Limousin. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026 The hypothesis was that one of the men — linked to organized crime groups that robbed wealthy homes — attempted to rob the Percy home and Valerie had woken up. — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026 Mingo allegedly entered each of the stores late at night -- after all or nearly all customers had left -- and robbed employees at gunpoint, officials said. — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026 In recent years, an awful muscle-wasting disease — inclusion-body myositis — has robbed Krukow of his physical mobility. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026 When his business is violently robbed, and one of his own is killed, Rodney embarks on a reckless quest for revenge that threatens to engulf the entire Clarke family. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026 In 2018, thieves broke into the home and Usher and Miguel were robbed of $20,000 in cash and a litany of jewelry and watches (the most expensive watch was reportedly worth $220,000). — Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 4 Aug. 2026 Thus within Haitian culture, zombies were victims, robbed of independent will by cruel masters. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026 An elderly Parker County man was beaten and robbed by a woman who gained access to his home after pretending to be a police officer, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Saturday. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for robbed
  1. burglarized
  2. looted
  3. sacked
  4. plundered
  5. stripped
  6. exploited
  7. cheated
Verb
  • Philadelphia Eagles star Saquon Barkley’s Pennsylvania home was burglarized early Saturday morning, police said.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
  • Police say another man arrested in connection with the burglaries identified Gavrilys as one of the men who burglarized Charlie D’s Bar in Kansas City, stealing around $300 and causing thousands of dollars in property damage.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026
Definition of burglarized
Verb
  • Los Angeles County deputies say that an AutoZone in East Los Angeles was found looted early Saturday morning, near the spot where a street takeover had taken place.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In addition to missile targeting, Russia has also looted thousands of Ukrainian cultural objects since the beginning of the war.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of looted
Verb
  • The offense couldn’t run the ball, and Dart was sacked three times early by defensive tackles Darius Alexander and Josh Tupou and safety Tyler Nubin.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Bennett threw at least one interception, and Simpson was sacked at least once.
    — Kai Dizon, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of sacked
Verb
  • As long as the contents of a container have not been plundered outright, they can even be delivered to the recipient after an accident, albeit with some delay.
    — Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
  • The Stuttgart striker plundered two second-half goals, including a stoppage-time winner, to earn his side a place in the last 32.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 June 2026
Definition of plundered
Verb
  • Roughly 40 miles northwest of Charlotte, in a spanking-clean body shop off a two-lane country road sits one of Hollywood’s most famous cars, stripped to its essence.
    — Joe Marusak August 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Legal avenue opens up The revocation of the special-use permit stripped the facility of its ability to hold immigrants.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of stripped
Verb
  • If the Dodgers hadn’t brilliantly exploited an MLB economic system that privileges big-market teams, the Padres wouldn’t be so beholden to the wild-card option year after year.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Federal prosecutors said the men exploited three girls who had run away from foster care, taking advantage of their ages, unstable living situations and lack of family support.
    — Eric Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of exploited
Verb
  • However, the models essentially cheated by attempting to access the open internet, thereby bypassing the isolated test environment.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 21 July 2026
  • In 2014, Russia was proven to have cheated in the Sochi Olympic Games.
    — Katie Uhlaender OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of cheated

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