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buy into

buy into verb: to believe (something, especially something implausible); to accept (a craze, fad, or notion) as valid.

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.
    • The truth is I never bought into your bullshit2015, “High by the Beach”, in Honeymoon, performed by Lana Del Rey
    Synonyms:
    fall for
  2. To buy stocks or shares of (a business).
    • We bought into a local electrical firm.

buy into meaning in Tamil and Bengali

buy into in Tamil

to buy into, believe
பருப்பு வே paruppu vē

buy into in Bengali

কোনো কিছু বিশ্বাস করা, কোনো ব্যবসায়ের শেয়ার কেনা

Synonyms of buy into

Forms of buy into

third-person singular presentbuys into
present participlebuying into
past participlebought into
pastbought into

Origin of buy into

From buy + into.

Questions about buy into

What does buy into mean?
Buy into means to believe (something, especially something implausible); to accept (a craze, fad, or notion) as valid.
What is buy into in Tamil?
Buy into in Tamil is பருப்பு வே (paruppu vē). See Buy into meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is buy into?
Buy into is a verb.
What is the past tense of buy into?
The past tense of buy into is bought into.

Words near buy into in the dictionary

  1. buy boats
  2. buy cheap, buy twice
  3. buy down
  4. buy high, sell higher
  5. buy in
  6. buy into
  7. buy it
  8. buy low, sell high
  9. buy nice or buy twice
  10. buy off
  11. buy off on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buy into (page history and authors); பருப்பு வே (Tamil) (page history and authors); buy into (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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