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muscling in on

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

Meaning of muscle in on

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To interfere with, or intrude on something forcibly.
    • The Russian Mafia did not take too kindly to a Westerner muscling in on their market, and so decided to send a little message.2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 29
    Synonyms:
    crowd in on

Questions about muscling in on

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

Words near muscling in on in the dictionary

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

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