verb
1. divide by means of a rope
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The police roped off the area where the crime occurred
• Syn: ↑rope off, ↑cordon off
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody PP
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Somebody ——s something PP
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Somebody ——s something with something
2. draw in as if with a rope; lure
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The agent had roped in several customers
• Hypernyms: ↑persuade
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Somebody ——s somebody to INFINITIVE
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[verb]
persuade, engage, enlist, inveigle, involve, talk into
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rope in
To bring in, enlist (esp someone who is reluctant)
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Main Entry: ↑rope
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ˌrope ˈin [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they rope in he/she/it ropes in present participle roping in past tense roped in past participle roped in] informal phrasal verb
to persuade someone to do something that they do not really want to do
I get roped in to help whenever I visit them.
Thesaurus: to encourage someone to do or to not do somethingsynonym
Main entry: rope
Useful english dictionary. 2012.