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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mob.

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Examples

  • They lived in a time when mob violence was so common that the word mobbed was a verb.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • They lived in a time when mob violence was so common that the word mobbed was a verb.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • After a talk at a personal-genetics conference in Boston last May, Anne was "mobbed," says Knome's Dr. Pearson, who heard her talk.

    Obsessed With Genes (Not Jeans), This Teen Analyzes Family DNA Amy Dockser Marcus 2010

  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- American has traveled a long road of such struggles.

    Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial Chris Weigant 2010

  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- American has traveled a long road of such struggles.

    Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial Chris Weigant 2010

  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- America has traveled an almost-constant and continuing road of such struggles.

    Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial Chris Weigant 2010

  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- America has traveled an almost-constant and continuing road of such struggles.

    Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial Chris Weigant 2010

  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- American has traveled a long road of such struggles.

    Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial Chris Weigant 2010

  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- American has traveled a long road of such struggles.

    Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial Chris Weigant 2010

  • From farmers "mobbed" off their lands, to union organizers beaten, to anti-war protestors unjustly imprisoned, to "un-American activities" committees, to Civil Rights activists murdered -- American has traveled a long road of such struggles.

    Chris Weigant: A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial Chris Weigant 2010

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