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roping into

roping into is the present participle and gerund 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 roping into

What is roping into the present participle and gerund of?
Roping into is the present participle and gerund of rope into.

Words near roping into in the dictionary

  1. ropiness
  2. roping
  3. roping boot
  4. roping boots
  5. roping in
  6. roping into
  7. roping off
  8. roping out
  9. roping up
  10. ropings
  11. ropinirole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roping 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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