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trooped

trooped is the simple past and past participle of troop.

Meaning of troop

Verb

troop (third-person singular simple present troops, present participle trooping, simple past and past participle trooped)

  1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
    • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. To march on; to go forward in haste.
  3. To move or march as if in a crowd.
    • The children trooped into the room.

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Phrases with trooped

Questions about trooped

What is trooped the simple past and past participle of?
Trooped is the simple past and past participle of troop.

Words near trooped in the dictionary

  1. troop ship
  2. troop the color
  3. troop the colour
  4. troop the colours
  5. troope
  6. trooped
  7. trooped the color
  8. trooped the colour
  9. trooped the colours
  10. trooper
  11. trooper hat

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