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rang in

rang in is the simple past of ring in.

Meaning of ring in

Verb (1)

ring in (third-person singular simple present rings in, present participle ringing in, simple past rang in, past participle rung in)

  1. To make a phone call to (this place).
    • John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says.
  2. (transitive) To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.
    • We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.
    Synonyms:
    call in

Verb (2)

ring in (third-person singular simple present rings in, present participle ringing in, simple past and past participle ringed in)

  1. (transitive) To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
    • T'other day as Apollo sat pitching his darts / Through the clouds of November, by fits and by starts, / He began to consider how long it had been, / Since the bards of Old England had all been rung in.1814, [Leigh Hunt], “The Feast of the Poets”, in The Feast of the Poets, […], London: […] [Carew Henry Reynell] for James Cawthorn, […], →OCLC, page 1

Questions about rang in

What is rang in the simple past of?
Rang in is the simple past of ring in.

Words near rang in in the dictionary

  1. rang around
  2. rang back
  3. rang down the curtain
  4. rang false
  5. rang hollow
  6. rang in
  7. rang off
  8. rang off the hook
  9. rang one's bell
  10. rang out
  11. rang round

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