ram
/ɹæm/ verb C2- To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function. · The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.
- To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement. · To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.
- To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking. · After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
- To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something. · I quickly rammed another charge down the barrel and took aim.
- To fill or compact by pounding or driving. · They rammed the earth walls to make them more compact
- To thrust during sexual intercourse.
He/she/it rams · Past rammed · Past participle rammed · -ing form ramming
Verb forms
- Base form
- ram
- He/she/it
- rams
- Past
- rammed
- Past participle
- rammed
- -ing form
- ramming
From the library
He flew around with a great whir of his wings and settled upon a large ram, with the intention of carrying him off, but his claws became entangled in the ram’s fleece and he was not able to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as much as he could.
Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
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