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gotten into the wrong hands

gotten into the wrong hands is the past participle of get into the wrong hands.

Meaning of get into the wrong hands

Verb

get into the wrong hands (third-person singular simple present gets into the wrong hands, present participle getting into the wrong hands, simple past got into the wrong hands, past participle (UK) got into the wrong hands or (US) gotten into the wrong hands)

  1. (idiomatic) To fall into the wrong hands.

Questions about gotten into the wrong hands

What is gotten into the wrong hands the past participle of?
Gotten into the wrong hands is the past participle of get into the wrong hands.

Words near gotten into the wrong hands in the dictionary

  1. gotten into it
  2. gotten into shape
  3. gotten into someone's head
  4. gotten into someone's pants
  5. gotten into the act
  6. gotten into the wrong hands
  7. gotten into trouble
  8. gotten it
  9. gotten it how one has gotten it
  10. gotten it how one lived
  11. gotten it how one lived it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten into the wrong hands (page history and authors); get into the wrong hands (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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