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ganging up on

ganging up on is the present participle and gerund 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 ganging up on

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

Words near ganging up on in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ganging 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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