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ganging up

ganging up is the present participle and gerund 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 ganging up

What is ganging up the present participle and gerund of?
Ganging up is the present participle and gerund of gang up.

Words near ganging up in the dictionary

  1. Ganges shark
  2. Ganges sharks
  3. Gangetic
  4. Gangi
  5. ganging
  6. ganging up
  7. ganging up on
  8. gangings
  9. gangion
  10. gangions
  11. Gangis

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