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rung back

rung back is the past participle of ring back.

Meaning of ring back

Verb

ring back (third-person singular simple present rings back, present participle ringing back, simple past rang back, past participle rung back)

  1. To return a phone call.
    • John called. He asked for you to ring him back as soon as you arrived.
  2. To make another phone call to the same person.
    • I had to ring you back because I forgot to ask you something important.

Questions about rung back

What is rung back the past participle of?
Rung back is the past participle of ring back.

Words near rung back in the dictionary

  1. runfluencer
  2. runfluencers
  3. rung
  4. rung a bell
  5. rung around
  6. rung back
  7. rung down the curtain
  8. rung false
  9. rung hollow
  10. rung in
  11. rung off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rung back (page history and authors); ring back (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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