march on
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Verb edit
march on (third-person singular simple present marches on, present participle marching on, simple past and past participle marched on)
- To continue or keep on.
- This process has marched on no matter how we try to stop it.
- 2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post[1]:
- The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.
- To protest (a place or institution).
- We're going to march on City Hall!
- To invade or attack (a place); to move towards a place in preparation for an attack.
- At dawn, we march on the city.