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frogmarching

frogmarching is the present participle and gerund of frogmarch.

Meaning of frogmarch

Verb

frogmarch (third-person singular simple present frogmarches, present participle frogmarching, simple past and past participle frogmarched)

  1. (transitive) To march or force a person forward while holding their arms from behind or the side, as a prisoner.
    • Maybe it happened during the COVID-19 lockdowns, when no one could work and soldiers frog-marched curfew-breakers through the township streets like criminals.2024 May 29, Ryan Lenora Brown, “South Africans head to polls. After 30 years, has Mandela’s party lost its luster?”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2024
    Synonyms:
    frog-walk
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To force a person forward against their will.
    • The wind frogmarched me at a run into the house.1940, Thomas Firbank, I Bought a Mountain
  3. (dated, transitive) To carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
  4. (transitive) To forcibly relocate a person, especially in a degrading or humiliating manner.

See all 5 meanings of frogmarch

Questions about frogmarching

What is frogmarching the present participle and gerund of?
Frogmarching is the present participle and gerund of frogmarch.

Words near frogmarching in the dictionary

  1. frogly
  2. frogman
  3. frogmarch
  4. frogmarched
  5. frogmarches
  6. frogmarching
  7. frogmen
  8. Frogmore
  9. Frogmore and Sherford
  10. Frogmore stew
  11. Frogmore stews

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frogmarching (page history and authors); frogmarch (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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