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strung along

strung along is the simple past and past participle of string along.

Meaning of string along

Verb

string along (third-person singular simple present strings along, present participle stringing along, simple past and past participle strung along)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions.
    • She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along.

Questions about strung along

What is strung along the simple past and past participle of?
Strung along is the simple past and past participle of string along.

Words near strung along in the dictionary

  1. strumstrum
  2. strumstrums
  3. strumulose
  4. strumæ
  5. strung
  6. strung along
  7. strung on
  8. strung out
  9. strung together
  10. strung up
  11. strung with

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strung along (page history and authors); string along (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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