Word Finder - ringing

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To enclose or surround.

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The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.

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To make an incision around; to girdle.

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They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.

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To attach a ring to, especially for identification.

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We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.

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To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.

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to ring a pig’s snout

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To rise in the air spirally.

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To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.

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Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.

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The bells were ringing in the town.

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To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.

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The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.

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To produce (a sound) by ringing.

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They rang a Christmas carol on their handbells.

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To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.

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Whose mobile phone is ringing?

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Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

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That does not ring true.

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To telephone (someone).

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I will ring you when we arrive.

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To resound, reverberate, echo.

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To produce music with bells.

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To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

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The sound of something that rings.

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The quality of being resonant.

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A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.

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The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.

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Loud and clear.

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Made forcefully; powerful.