mob
/mɑb/ verb C2- To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. · The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
- To crowd into or around a place. · The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
He/she/it mobs · Past mobbed · Past participle mobbed · -ing form mobbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- mob
- He/she/it
- mobs
- Past
- mobbed
- Past participle
- mobbed
- -ing form
- mobbing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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At the station he captured Miss Lantry out of the gadding mob at eight thirty-two.
Brady wasn’t onto that little outdoor vehicle mob scene.
At last he made his way through the mob, which was continually increasing and getting more and more turbulent, and reached the hotel.
Some voices were heard to say that the gentleman was right; that he intended to be civil, in his way, and that they would set the example of liberty of conscience,—and the mob retired.
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