march

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This march will be an act to rebirth our civic duty and responsibility to defend our Constitution and strengthen our resolve to stop the damage this unjust, illegal, and immoral war is doing to our families, communities, the world and most of all, soldiers.

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  1. intransitive verb To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others.
  2. intransitive verb To begin to move in such a manner: The troops will march at dawn.
  3. intransitive verb To proceed directly and purposefully: marched in and demanded to see the manager.
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  • But the march was also marked by a deep sense of anger at the economic crisis-anger that had a class edge to it, directed against bankers, the rich and the politicians that had presided over an economic system that has failed to deliver jobs, justice or environmental sustainability.
  • Andrea Sieve, one of the organizers of the event and a close friend of Boyne's, said the march was a show of solidarity for Boyne. —  Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories
  • Organised by the ANC's eThekwini region -- KwaZulu-Natal's largest and, arguably, most virulently pro-Zuma structure -- the march was a pointed reminder that the musical-militant mélange whips listeners into a frenzied state of Zuma adulation and intolerance for any other voice besides His Master's —  Mail & Guardian Online
  • It seems like organizing bodies like StW and the stewards on this march are the only people who haven't realized this. —  Indymedia Scotland Features RSS Feed
  • At the head of the march was a banner which read: SOLIDARITY WITH GREEK UNREST-RESISTANCE IS GLOBAL, flanked by drawings of two molotov cocktails. —  Chicago Indymedia
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journey ·  walk ·  progress ·  flight ·  battle ·  movement ·  retreat ·  procession ·  travel ·  move ·  course ·  troop

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march:   marches ·  March ·  marched ·  marching
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  1. Middle English marchen, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, to mark out; see merg- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old French marche, of Germanic origin; see merg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English marche, partly (a) from Anglo-Saxon mearc (genitive dative mearce), border, bound, mark; partly (b) from Old French marche, French marche (= Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian marca, Middle Latin marca), border, bound, frontier, the Roman forms being from the Old High German cognate with Anglo-Saxon mearc: see further under mark, n.
  2. from Middle English marchen, also marken, merken, from Anglo-Saxon mearcian, fix the bounds or limits of a place, from mearc, border, bound, mark: see mark, v., and cf. march, n.
  3. from Middle English marchen = Dutch marcheren = German marschiren = Sw. marschera = Danish marschere, from Old French marcher, French marcher (= Spanish Portuguese marchar = Italian marciare), walk, march, proceed, move on; perhaps from Old French marche, border, frontier (see march, n.); according to another view, from Middle Latin *marcare, hammer, hence beat the ground with the feet, tramp, march (from marcus, a hammer); cf. tramp, jog, pace one's beat, and similar expressions. Neither view is satisfactory.
  4. = D. G. Danish Sw. marsch, from French marche = Spanish Portuguese marcha = Italian marcia, walk, gait, march; from the verb.
 

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