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bounce into

bounce into verb: to be forced into doing something that one is uncomfortable with.

Verb

bounce into (third-person singular simple present bounces into, present participle bouncing into, simple past and past participle bounced into)

  1. To be forced into doing something that one is uncomfortable with.
    • I didn't want to, but the salesman bounced me into it.
    • After a failed attempt by ministers to bounce the union into an agreement by announcing its terms (which included all sorts of union red lines such as drivers having to pay for their own training) in the media rather than over the negotiation table, there is an understandable reluctance on the part...2023 September 6, Christian Wolmar, “Rail strikes: little prospect of negotiations”, in RAIL, number 991, page 44

Forms of bounce into

third-person singular presentbounces into
present participlebouncing into
past participlebounced into
pastbounced into

Questions about bounce into

What does bounce into mean?
Bounce into means to be forced into doing something that one is uncomfortable with.
What part of speech is bounce into?
Bounce into is a verb.
What is the past tense of bounce into?
The past tense of bounce into is bounced into.

Words near bounce into in the dictionary

  1. bounce back
  2. bounce backs
  3. bounce house
  4. bounce houses
  5. bounce in
  6. bounce into
  7. bounce off
  8. bounce off the walls
  9. bounce on it
  10. bounce rate
  11. bounce rates

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