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Past tense of mob

regular verb

The past tense of mob is mobbed. The past participle is also mobbed.

Forms of mob

Base form (V1)mob /mɒb/
Past tense (V2)mobbed
Past participle (V3)mobbed
Present participlemobbing
Third person singularmobs

Mobbed in a sentence

  • The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
  • Politicians have been turning up to Glastonbury for years, but this year the leader of the opposition was among the most hotly anticipated attractions: when he arrived on site, his Land Rover was mobbed by fans.2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian
  • The lobby will get mobbed if you don't push people through quickly.From the entry push through
  • How many Trumpublicans run big cities up in the mobbed up union states?2018 August 30, <gfre...@aol.com>, “Survey: 1-in-3 Gov Workers Could Leave Union”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet). From the entry Trumpublican
  • It becomes a grotto, hubbubbing with more noise than any class on a school visit could make, the air mobbed by breathless chatter about life and the transfer window.2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry hubbub

Meaning of mob

  1. noun A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
  2. noun The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
  3. noun A group of animals of any kind.

Full definition of mob

Questions about the past tense of mob

What is the past tense of mob?
The past tense of mob is mobbed.
What is the past participle of mob?
The past participle of mob is mobbed.
Is mob a regular or irregular verb?
Mob is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mob (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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