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rung true

rung true is the past participle of ring true.

Meaning of ring true

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To seem to be correct, or plausible
    • His excuse about his daughter being ill again rings true, to me.

Questions about rung true

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

Words near rung true in the dictionary

  1. rung someone's bell
  2. rung the changes
  3. rung the devil's doorbell
  4. rung the welkins
  5. rung through
  6. rung true
  7. rung up
  8. rung up the curtain
  9. Runge's phenomenon
  10. Runge's theorem
  11. Runge-Kutta method

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