forced march
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A movement on foot by soldiers or prisoners of war, who must, in order to satisfy a military requirement, travel at a speed or in adverse conditions that would normally tire them excessively.
Example Sentences
- "I did not believe this possible because of the distance and the condition of the roads, which was bad; besides, troops after a forced march of twenty miles are not in a good condition for fighting the moment they get through."
- "[M]any of their leaders could not yet wholly believe that Jackson and his army, making a forced march in the dead of winter, were at hand."
- "American and Filipino prisoners from the fall of Corregidor in 1942 were refused food and water on a six-day, 97-km forced march to their place of confinement at Camp O'Donnell."