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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“The widow will never come out again.” And the red ants that live between the grass stems heard him, and began to troop down one after another to see if he had spoken the truth.
Still with rapt face she gazed afar into the sunset west, with eyes that saw visions trooping splendidly across that glowing background.
Presently they came trooping through the hall and out into the kitchen, laughing and chattering gaily.
On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin’s appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower.
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