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ganged up on

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

Meaning of gang up on

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To join together in a group in order to overpower someone else.
    Synonyms:
    mob

Questions about ganged up on

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

Words near ganged up on in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ganged up on (page history and authors); gang up on (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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