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rallying round

rallying round is the present participle and gerund of rally round.

Meaning of rally round

Verb

rally round (third-person singular simple present rallies round, present participle rallying round, simple past and past participle rallied round)

  1. (idiomatic) To unite in order to support a fellow group member.
    Synonyms:
    rally around

Questions about rallying round

What is rallying round the present participle and gerund of?
Rallying round is the present participle and gerund of rally round.

Words near rallying round in the dictionary

  1. rallying around the flag
  2. rallying cries
  3. rallying cry
  4. rallying point
  5. rallying points
  6. rallying round
  7. rallying round the flag
  8. rallyingly
  9. rallyings
  10. rallyist
  11. rallyists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rallying round (page history and authors); rally round (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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