"gang up on" meaning in English

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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ganging up on",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ganged up on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "ganged up on",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To join together in a group in order to overpower someone else."
      ],
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        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "overpower",
          "overpower"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To join together in a group in order to overpower someone else."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "gang up"
        },
        {
          "word": "double-team"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
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  "word": "gang up on"
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      "form": "gangs up on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ganging up on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ganged up on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ganged up on",
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        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "gang up"
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    {
      "word": "double-team"
    }
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        "To join together in a group in order to overpower someone else."
      ],
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          "group"
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          "overpower"
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        "(transitive, idiomatic) To join together in a group in order to overpower someone else."
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