Thesaurus results for ROBBED

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 To make matters worse, this isn't the first time the band has been robbed. — Renee Anderson, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked down, beaten, and robbed of her camera equipment by masked settlers in an attack captured on video by other journalists. — Cameron Peters, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026 But by and large, audiences were exposed to the horrors of a woman robbed of control over her own mind and body. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 Three teenage boys were charged after a 15-year-old boy with autism was beaten and robbed near a train station in Australia in a violent attack captured on video as other teenagers watched. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The victim told deputies that two men threatened the victim with a firearm, robbed the victim and fled. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026 In written reports, customers compared the ordeal to being robbed, held hostage or physically assaulted. — Monika Evstatieva, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026 The Guardians had a runner on first with one out in the third when second baseman Ben Williamson robbed DeLauter of a hit that prevented a first-and-third jam. — Rob Maaddi, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 What about the impact on other clubs and fans, who were potentially robbed of titles, trophies, money, parades, memories? — Matt Piper, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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Staff at an Albany Park coffee shop planned to celebrate their first anniversary over the weekend, but they were burglarized the same day.

— Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Connor headed inside to relax for the first time in months, only to find that the property had been burglarized.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of burglarized

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Shopkeepers boarded up windows while others opened temporarily and endured a nervous Saturday afternoon, after around 3,000 shops were damaged or looted last weekend.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Some 3,000 shops across France were damaged or looted over the weekend.

— Richard Engel, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of looted

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Craig overcame being sacked four times and the run game producing just 33 yards to lead TCU to the massive victory, as the Horned Frogs scored multiple touchdowns against a Power Four conference opponent for the first time this season.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
Much worse, the Commanders were in field goal range, and they somehow got sacked.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026

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But there is very little archaeological evidence available, given that many of the earliest Egyptian tombs were plundered and/or hastily excavated.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
In the sixties, artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Peter Saul had plundered lowbrow visual culture for elemental materials.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of plundered

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The Montaukett, the original inhabitants of the Hamptons, were stripped of their land and tribal rights a century ago.

— Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026
Recent wildfires have stripped vegetation from nearby hillsides, leaving the ground more vulnerable to mudslides.

— Brittney Ermon, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of stripped

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In their complaint, the US alleged that Alfozan used an OpenAI productivity agent to research which conference rooms might be best exploited for his spying.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
In one case, Claude exploited a software flaw on a university server to run commands after a scientific analysis tool stopped working.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of exploited

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As Gabe yells that Morgan cheated and broke up the family, a grin starts to spread across Nick’s and Serena’s faces.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
The Dubas front office cheated for offence in a sense too, deciding to buck the trend by building from centre ice backwards and not drafting/developing top d-men.

— James Mirtle, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of cheated

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