berob

English

Etymology

From Middle English berobben; equivalent to be- +‎ rob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈɹɒb/

Verb

berob (third-person singular simple present berobs, present participle berobbing, simple past and past participle berobbed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To rob; to plunder.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ah dearest Lord! what evil starre
     On you hath frownd, and pourd his influence bad,
     That of your selfe ye thus berobbed arre

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “berob”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Bober