bum-rushed

verb

past tense of bum-rush
as in mobbed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bum-rushed
  1. mobbed
  2. swarmed
  3. attacked
  4. assaulted
  5. robbed
  6. rushed
  7. stormed
  8. ambushed
Verb
  • By Beabadoobee’s set time, the area was already mobbed with a full crowd of people as far as the eye could see.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Loftin was mobbed by his teammates as the Royals earned a 4-3 home victory.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
Definition of mobbed
Verb
  • Krukow says ‘thank you’ to fans Fans have swarmed to support Krukow, with hundreds of positive comments and thousands of likes filling up the various social media posts announcing his retirement.
    — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The challenge was to see how many passes each team could complete before they were dispossessed as opponents swarmed all over them.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of swarmed
Verb
  • Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz after the United States and Israel attacked the country in February.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Yemen’s Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping last month, attacked Saudi oil tankers this week, and are threatening to impose tolls, adding urgency to securing the waterway.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of attacked
Verb
  • Police said the suspect broke into the home, physically assaulted a resident and fled with several items.
    — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In 2024, the US paused all avocado imports from the state for more than a week after two US avocado inspectors were assaulted and detained at a police roadblock.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of assaulted
Verb
  • Between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the Musée du Président Jacques Chirac in the central French town of Sarran was robbed for the third time in less than a year, a French public prosecutor told local media outlet Ici Limousin.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The hypothesis was that one of the men — linked to organized crime groups that robbed wealthy homes — attempted to rob the Percy home and Valerie had woken up.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of robbed
Verb
  • Medics rushed the worker to Bellevue Hospital, where he’s expected to survive.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • As health officials pointed to a Mexican processing plant run by Taylor Farms as the source of a parasite sickening Americans, the giant produce company rushed to defend itself.
    — Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of rushed
Verb
  • Spain erected a 1,600-foot sea barrier off Ceuta after tens of thousands of migrants stormed the frontier, a deadly rush that left at least 67 dead.
    — Sergio Rodrigo Ruíz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Sami and Finn brawled with Gunther before Nick Aldis stormed out and got the better of Gunther in a brawl of his own.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of stormed
Verb
  • On the day Tran was ambushed, the vehicle circled the area 16 times before the shooting, according to investigators.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Tae-ha, who is in Japan on business for Sang-gil, is ambushed by a bunch of men.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of ambushed
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