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roping out

roping out is the present participle and gerund of rope out.

Meaning of rope out

Verb

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

  1. Of a tornado funnel, to narrow and lengthen and perhaps curl into complex, rope-like shapes, usually during dissipation.

Questions about roping out

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

Words near roping out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roping out (page history and authors); rope out (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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