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chiselled in

chiselled in is the simple past and past participle of chisel in.

Meaning of chisel in

Verb

chisel in (third-person singular simple present chisels in, present participle (US) chiseling in or (UK) chiselling in, simple past and past participle (US) chiseled in or (UK) chiselled in)

  1. (intransitive) To barge in on something; to be a third wheel; to insinuate oneself into a situation or relationship; to get oneself involved in something.
    • Ignore him, he's only here because he chiseled in.
  2. (intransitive, slang) To unfairly push in on (something); to gain a role in (something unsavory); to acquire a partial interest in (something) through deceit.
    • He's chiseling in on our operation.

Questions about chiselled in

What is chiselled in the simple past and past participle of?
Chiselled in is the simple past and past participle of chisel in.

Words near chiselled in in the dictionary

  1. chiseling in
  2. chiseling out
  3. chiseling up
  4. chiselings
  5. chiselled
  6. chiselled in
  7. chiselled out
  8. chiselled up
  9. chiseller
  10. chisellers
  11. chisellike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chiselled in (page history and authors); chisel in (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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