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muscling in

muscling in is the present participle and gerund of muscle in.

Meaning of muscle in

Verb

muscle in (third-person singular simple present muscles in, present participle muscling in, simple past and past participle muscled in)

  1. (intransitive) To interfere, or intrude forcibly.
    • The Government's £500 million Restoring Your Railway initiative - awarding small grants to put back lines that should never have been closed - has turned into a muddle because backers of multi-million pound projects have also muscled in.2021 May 5, Howard Johnston, “Restoring your railway... or just window dressing?”, in RAIL, number 930, page 32

Questions about muscling in

What is muscling in the present participle and gerund of?
Muscling in is the present participle and gerund of muscle in.

Words near muscling in in the dictionary

  1. musclewoods
  2. muscley
  3. musclier
  4. muscliest
  5. muscling
  6. muscling in
  7. muscling in on
  8. muscling up
  9. muscly
  10. Musco
  11. Muscogee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muscling in (page history and authors); muscle in (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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