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ganged up

ganged up is the simple past and past participle of gang up.

Meaning of gang up

Verb

gang up (third-person singular simple present gangs up, present participle ganging up, simple past and past participle ganged up)

  1. (idiomatic) To join together, as a gang.
    • And people talking all the time about the AfD is just what it wants: to foster the impression that the others are ganging up against it. The “authentic” voice of “real people” v the amorphous elite.2023 September 27, John Kampfner, “German politics has a built-in firewall against the far right. It’s beginning to crack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about ganged up

What is ganged up the simple past and past participle of?
Ganged up is the simple past and past participle of gang up.

Words near ganged up in the dictionary

  1. gangdays
  2. gangdom
  3. gange
  4. Gangean
  5. ganged
  6. ganged up
  7. ganged up on
  8. Gangehi
  9. ganger
  10. gangerel
  11. gangerels

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