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rung off

rung off is the past participle of ring off.

Meaning of ring off

Verb

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

  1. (Australia, UK, intransitive) To disconnect at the end of a phone call.
    • I thanked him and rang off.2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 68
  2. (dated, imperative, slang) Buzz off; go away; shut up.
    • [S]he's not a Bloomer / But knows when she's got you at her wire's end. / It does no good to fret and fume and scoff, / For she all protests meets with "Oh, ring off!"1894, David Todd Praigg, Almetta, page 109

Questions about rung off

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

Words near rung off in the dictionary

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

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