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roped into

roped into is the simple past and past participle of rope into.

Meaning of rope into

Verb

rope into (third-person singular simple present ropes into, present participle roping into, simple past and past participle roped into)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rope, into.
    • They could be quickly strapped into the jump-seats with seatbelts, rather than roping them into the bed of the truck in a downpour.2010, Kurt Lewis Allen, The Service, →ISBN, page 202
  2. To inveigle someone into (doing something) that they are reluctant to do.
    • Efforts to contain the discontent in the plants through the creation of new bargaining institutions gave the unions an apprenticeship in institution building without roping them into a defense of the status quo;1982, Charles F. Sabel, Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry, →ISBN, page 157

Questions about roped into

What is roped into the simple past and past participle of?
Roped into is the simple past and past participle of rope into.

Words near roped into in the dictionary

  1. ropebark
  2. ropebridge
  3. ropebridges
  4. roped
  5. roped in
  6. roped into
  7. roped off
  8. roped out
  9. roped up
  10. ropedance
  11. ropedancer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roped into (page history and authors); rope into (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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