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reeling in

reeling in is the present participle and gerund 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 reeling in

What is reeling in the present participle and gerund of?
Reeling in is the present participle and gerund of reel in.

Words near reeling in in the dictionary

  1. Reelfoot
  2. reeligibility
  3. reeligible
  4. reelin
  5. reeling
  6. reeling in
  7. reeling off
  8. reeling out
  9. reeling up
  10. reelingly
  11. reelings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reeling 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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