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reeled in

reeled in is the simple past and past participle of reel in.

Meaning of reel in

Verb

reel in (third-person singular simple present reels in, present participle reeling in, simple past and past participle reeled in)

  1. (transitive) To bring (a fish etc.) out of the water by winding the line on which it is caught onto a reel (e.g. of a fishing rod).
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To bring in (e.g. by attractive offers or persuasion); to lure.

Questions about reeled in

What is reeled in the simple past and past participle of?
Reeled in is the simple past and past participle of reel in.

Words near reeled in in the dictionary

  1. reelectionist
  2. reelectionists
  3. reelections
  4. reelects
  5. reeled
  6. reeled in
  7. reeled off
  8. reeled out
  9. reeled up
  10. reeler
  11. reelers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reeled in (page history and authors); reel 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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