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Meaning of "frogmarch" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FROGMARCH

frogmarch  [ˈfrɒɡˌmɑːtʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FROGMARCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Frogmarch is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb frogmarch in English.

WHAT DOES FROGMARCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

DJ Froggy

Steven Howlett, aka DJ Froggy, was an English DJ who worked as a 'beatmixer DJ' on the British Club music scene in the 1970s and 1980s.

Definition of frogmarch in the English dictionary

The first definition of frogmarch in the dictionary is a method of carrying a resisting person in which each limb is held by one person and the victim is carried horizontally and face downwards. Other definition of frogmarch is any method of making a resisting person move forward against his will. Frogmarch is also to carry in a frogmarch or cause to move forward unwillingly.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FROGMARCH

PRESENT

Present
I frogmarch
you frogmarch
he/she/it frogmarches
we frogmarch
you frogmarch
they frogmarch
Present continuous
I am frogmarching
you are frogmarching
he/she/it is frogmarching
we are frogmarching
you are frogmarching
they are frogmarching
Present perfect
I have frogmarched
you have frogmarched
he/she/it has frogmarched
we have frogmarched
you have frogmarched
they have frogmarched
Present perfect continuous
I have been frogmarching
you have been frogmarching
he/she/it has been frogmarching
we have been frogmarching
you have been frogmarching
they have been frogmarching
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I frogmarched
you frogmarched
he/she/it frogmarched
we frogmarched
you frogmarched
they frogmarched
Past continuous
I was frogmarching
you were frogmarching
he/she/it was frogmarching
we were frogmarching
you were frogmarching
they were frogmarching
Past perfect
I had frogmarched
you had frogmarched
he/she/it had frogmarched
we had frogmarched
you had frogmarched
they had frogmarched
Past perfect continuous
I had been frogmarching
you had been frogmarching
he/she/it had been frogmarching
we had been frogmarching
you had been frogmarching
they had been frogmarching
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will frogmarch
you will frogmarch
he/she/it will frogmarch
we will frogmarch
you will frogmarch
they will frogmarch
Future continuous
I will be frogmarching
you will be frogmarching
he/she/it will be frogmarching
we will be frogmarching
you will be frogmarching
they will be frogmarching
Future perfect
I will have frogmarched
you will have frogmarched
he/she/it will have frogmarched
we will have frogmarched
you will have frogmarched
they will have frogmarched
Future perfect continuous
I will have been frogmarching
you will have been frogmarching
he/she/it will have been frogmarching
we will have been frogmarching
you will have been frogmarching
they will have been frogmarching
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would frogmarch
you would frogmarch
he/she/it would frogmarch
we would frogmarch
you would frogmarch
they would frogmarch
Conditional continuous
I would be frogmarching
you would be frogmarching
he/she/it would be frogmarching
we would be frogmarching
you would be frogmarching
they would be frogmarching
Conditional perfect
I would have frogmarch
you would have frogmarch
he/she/it would have frogmarch
we would have frogmarch
you would have frogmarch
they would have frogmarch
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been frogmarching
you would have been frogmarching
he/she/it would have been frogmarching
we would have been frogmarching
you would have been frogmarching
they would have been frogmarching
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you frogmarch
we let´s frogmarch
you frogmarch
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to frogmarch
Past participle
frogmarched
Present Participle
frogmarching
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FROGMARCH


arch
ɑːtʃ
biach
biːˈɑːtʃ
cornstarch
ˈkɔːnˌstɑːtʃ
countermarch
ˈkaʊntəˌmɑːtʃ
Dedeagatch
ˈdɛdeɪɑːˈɡɑːtʃ
inarch
ɪnˈɑːtʃ
interarch
ˌɪntərˈɑːtʃ
larch
lɑːtʃ
march
mɑːtʃ
outmarch
ˌaʊtˈmɑːtʃ
overarch
ˌəʊvərˈɑːtʃ
parch
pɑːtʃ
routemarch
ˈruːtˌmɑːtʃ
starch
stɑːtʃ
unstarch
ʌnˈstɑːtʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FROGMARCH

frog-bit
frogeye
frogeyed
frogfish
frogged
froggery
froggier
Froggies
froggiest
frogging
froggy
froghopper
froglet
froglike
frogling
frogman
frogmen
frogmouth
frogs´ legs
frogspawn

WORDS THAT END LIKE FROGMARCH

approach march
dead march
death march
forced march
funeral march
hunger march
job search
market research
monarch
nomarch
onward march
operational research
Orange march
polemarch
protest march
quick march
research
search
slow march
the Long March

Synonyms and antonyms of frogmarch in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «frogmarch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FROGMARCH

Find out the translation of frogmarch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of frogmarch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frogmarch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

frogmarch
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

frogmarch
570 millions of speakers

English

frogmarch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

frogmarch
380 millions of speakers
ar

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280 millions of speakers

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278 millions of speakers

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frogmarch
270 millions of speakers

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frogmarch
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Frogmarch
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frogmarch
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Translator English - Korean

frogmarch
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Translator English - Javanese

Frogmarch
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

frogmarch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

frogmarch
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्रॉगमैर्च
75 millions of speakers

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frogmarch
70 millions of speakers

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frogmarch
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frogmarch
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

frogmarch
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

frogmarch
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

frogmarch
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

frogmarch
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

frogmarch
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

frogmarch
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of frogmarch

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FROGMARCH»

The term «frogmarch» is used very little and occupies the 157.194 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FROGMARCH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «frogmarch» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «frogmarch» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about frogmarch

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROGMARCH»

Discover the use of frogmarch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to frogmarch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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LIFE
THE OMNIVOROUS APE by LYALL WATSON (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan) $6.95 My colleague Frogmarch the biologist brings his kids up in the real world. "I bring them up in the real world," he says. "I show them the big picture. They're ...
2
Little Rosie Runaway
'Vermin?' the possum retorted, annoyed. 'Who is she calling vermin?' 'Don't worry, we can always get an exterminator,' Mr Frogmarch replied. 'If we decide to buy this rickety old house,' he finished, looking at Mr Snimpet. 'Yes, well, you think it ...
Gabiann Marin, 2005
3
The New York Times Book Review
The purist suppresses a retch. In his judgment it's a confusion of genres tantamount to "Alchemy and Chemistry." I met a purist there just the other day, my colleague Frogmarch. "Go away," he said. "I am not up to talking." That meant he wanted ...
‎1973
4
The Mote in God's Eye
Mr. Staley, tell the Marines to put Buckman in his cabin even if they have to frogmarch him there." Whitbread grinned to himself. MacArthur was in free fall, all her spin gone. Now how would the Marines frogmarch the astrophysicist in that?
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, 1991
5
A Red Mole Sketchbook
Dets 1 & 2: Right. That's it. Stopped to think didn't you? Poet: I'm too long — Detectives join in — in the tooth to change now. Detective 1 grabs the Poet and, pinning an arm behind his back, begins to frogmarch him out. Det 2: They all crack.
Alan Brunton, 1989
6
Life
Frogmarch talks so fast he might have said "dil- lies." "They're killers," he said. " Why do you think they bat a baseball around?" "Getting ready to face Vida Blue," 1 said. "It's every kid's hope these days. He grows up, he knocks a homer off Vida  ...
Henry Robinson Luce, Gordon Parks, 1971
7
Reader's Digest Oxford complete wordfinder
equipped with a rubber suit, flippers, and an oxygen supply for underwater swimming. frogmarch / frawgmaarch, frog-/ v. & n. • v.tr. 1 hustle (a person) forward holding and pinning the arms from behind. 2 carry (a person) in a frogmarch. • n. the ...
Reader's Digest Association, 1996
8
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
... flippers (= rubber or plastic shoes which are longer than the feet) and usually a rubber suit: police frogmen frogmarch /'frog.ma:tJ7 © /'fra:g.ma:rtJ7 verb [T usually + adv/prep] to force someone who is unwilling to move forward by ... frogmarch.
‎2008
9
Iran's Nuclear Program: Debating Facts Versus Fiction
-8-. Sideshows. On. Iran's. Frogmarch. To. The. UN. Early last week, Europe instantly rejected, without pause for breath, an Iranian offer of a two-year moratorium on uranium enrichment, thus setting its seal on a major international crisis.
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, 2006
10
If Pigs Could Fly: Stories
Frogmarch. he land of Nord was peculiarly blessed. Though the inhabitants would have readily confessed that in winter it was hardly more than a few acres of snow, in summer it was spectacular. It had almost any kind of landscape you could ...
David Arnason, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROGMARCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term frogmarch is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and …
... militarized police, surveillance, and government corruption—while the government continues to frogmarch us down the road toward outright ... «DeSoto Times Today, Jun 15»
2
A WSWS investigation into the social crisis in Australia's Mount Druitt …
“A '7:30' report program [on the ABC] had Pru Goward, the [New South Wales state] government minister responsible for housing, frogmarch ... «World Socialist Web Site, Jun 15»
3
Mr Neat and Mr Tidy biggest villains of all
They frogmarch him back home, clip his garden, fix his house up, make him bathe and comb his Mr Messiness so much out of recognition that ... «Otago Daily Times, May 15»
4
Weak-Kneed Tories Give in to The 'Help, I'm a Victim' Culture of the …
When we declare our helplessness, we invite them to frogmarch us through life, ostensibly for our own benefit, but actually to satisfy their lust for ... «Breitbart News, Apr 15»
5
Vote or E4 gets it. And maybe Dave. And Kellogg's cornflakes
Hey, Channel 4, if you want me to vote that much, why don't you just send one of your stormtroopers to my front door and get them to frogmarch ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
6
Double Take: Cabaret (1972)
The growing menace of Nazism pervades the film; there is a time when a club owner could feel free to frogmarch a uniformed Nazi member out ... «PopMatters, Apr 15»
7
How to tame your teenager: I've been there, and boy it's hard
However cross whatever they just did has made you, you'll still lack the gargantuan strength needed to successfully frogmarch a recalcitrant ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
8
Misguided war on drugs claims 11-year-old as collateral damage
If I were ensnared in a routine traffic stop, the cops might see the plastic container on the passenger seat and frogmarch me off to jail, charged ... «The Virginian-Pilot, Mar 15»
9
Xenophobia isolates us in Africa
Thabo Mbeki tried to frogmarch the country into a philosophical and spiritual identification with the continent and at one point was regarded as ... «Rand Daily Mail, Mar 15»
10
Backlash over Abbott's 'lifestyle choice' gaffe
“You can't just pick people up and frogmarch them to another part of the state just because you've made a decision to do that. “We've tried ... «The New Daily, Mar 15»

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