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bought into

bought into is the simple past and past participle of buy into.

Meaning of buy into

Verb

buy into (third-person singular simple present buys into, present participle buying into, simple past and past participle bought into)

  1. (idiomatic) To believe (something, especially something implausible); to accept (a craze, fad, or notion) as valid.
    • I don't buy into all this propaganda.
    Synonyms:
    fall for
  2. To buy stocks or shares of (a business).
    • We bought into a local electrical firm.

Questions about bought into

What is bought into the simple past and past participle of?
Bought into is the simple past and past participle of buy into.

Words near bought into in the dictionary

  1. bought air
  2. bought and paid for
  3. bought back
  4. bought down
  5. bought in
  6. bought into
  7. bought it
  8. bought off
  9. bought off on
  10. bought out
  11. bought out from under

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bought into (page history and authors); buy into (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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