troop
/tɹup/ verb C2- To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
- To march on; to go forward in haste.
- To move or march as if in a crowd. · The children trooped into the room.
He/she/it troops · Past trooped · Past participle trooped · -ing form trooping
Verb forms
- Base form
- troop
- He/she/it
- troops
- Past
- trooped
- Past participle
- trooped
- -ing form
- trooping
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They had not gone far when they met with a troop of women collected round a well, talking and laughing.
I have not slain a single man of your troop.
Still with rapt face she gazed afar into the sunset west, with eyes that saw visions trooping splendidly across that glowing background.
A groan of disappointment came up from below, and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the manager.
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