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rung in

rung in is the past participle of ring in.

Meaning of ring in

Verb (1)

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

  1. To make a phone call to (this place).
    • John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says.
  2. (transitive) To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.
    • We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.
    Synonyms:
    call in

Verb (2)

ring in (third-person singular simple present rings in, present participle ringing in, simple past and past participle ringed in)

  1. (transitive) To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
    • T'other day as Apollo sat pitching his darts / Through the clouds of November, by fits and by starts, / He began to consider how long it had been, / Since the bards of Old England had all been rung in.1814, [Leigh Hunt], “The Feast of the Poets”, in The Feast of the Poets, […], London: […] [Carew Henry Reynell] for James Cawthorn, […], →OCLC, page 1

Questions about rung in

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

Words near rung in in the dictionary

  1. rung around
  2. rung back
  3. rung down the curtain
  4. rung false
  5. rung hollow
  6. rung in
  7. rung off
  8. rung off the hook
  9. rung one's bell
  10. rung out
  11. rung round

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