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dinged

/dɪŋd/

dinged is the simple past and past participle of ding.

dinged is the simple past and past participle of dinge.

Meaning of ding

Verb

ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past dinged or (obsolete) dang, past participle dinged or (obsolete) dang or (obsolete) dung)

  1. (transitive) To hit or strike.
  2. To dash; to throw violently.
    • to ding the book a coit's distance from him1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC
  3. (colloquial, transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
    • If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014
  4. (colloquial, transitive) To fire or reject.
    • His top school dinged him last week.
  5. (colloquial, transitive) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
    • My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
  6. (transitive) To mishit (a golf ball).

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Meaning of dinge

Verb

dinge (third-person singular simple present dinges, present participle dingeing, simple past and past participle dinged)

  1. to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in
  2. to flog, as in penance

See all 4 meanings of dinge

Phrases with dinged

Questions about dinged

What is dinged the simple past and past participle of?
Dinged is the simple past and past participle of ding.
How do you pronounce dinged?
Dinged is pronounced /dɪŋd/.

Words near dinged in the dictionary

  1. dingdonging
  2. dingdongs
  3. dinge
  4. dinge queen
  5. dinge queens
  6. dinged
  7. dinged up
  8. dinged-up
  9. Dingee
  10. dingeing
  11. Dingell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dinged (page history and authors); ding (page history and authors); dinge (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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