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🚶‍♂️ To force-walk 📜 To force through
to frogmarch

to frogmarch

9.9
Make someone walk by holding their arms, usually against their will
  • verb
  • /ˈfrɔɡˌmɑrtʃ/
  • NSFW
: arrastrar
  • John frogmarches Nadia down the corridor to the ladies.

Examples

  • After the altercation, the police frogmarched the suspect to their squad car.

  • The security guards frogmarched the protester out of the building after he refused to leave.

  • They frogmarched him back to the classroom because he had tried to escape during the test.

Antonyms

to release
∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

to liberate
104 4.3

Set someone free from prison or unfair control

How Forced

to drag
704 2.0
to frogmarch
  • NSFW
9.9
to lead
∞ 1.0
to escort
287 4.0
to accompany
219 3.5

Surface Forms

frogmarch infinitive
frogmarched past
frogmarched past participle
frogmarching present participle
frogmarches third person singular

Morphology

frogmarch = frog + march (semi-transparent) = frog + march

The component 'march' clearly signals walking, but the coercive/ restraining sense (and the role of 'frog') is not fully derivable for most learners.

Etymology

Frogmarch comes from the two simple words frog and march, giving a strong picture: guards hold a person's arms and force them to walk, so their legs look a little like a 'frog' as they are marched away. So to frogmarch someone is to force them to go somewhere 'against their will'.