slam
/ˈslæm/ verb B2- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. · Don't slam the door!
- To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.) · Don't slam that trunk down on the pavement!
- To strike forcefully with some implement.
- To strike against suddenly and heavily. · The boat slammed into the bank and we were almost thrown into the river.
- To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
- To defeat or overcome in a match. · The Armenian football team has slammed the Turks 6–0.
- To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully. · Don't ever slam me in front of the boss like that again!· Union leaders slammed the new proposals.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
He/she/it slams · Past slammed · Past participle slammed · -ing form slamming
Verb forms
- Base form
- slam
- He/she/it
- slams
- Past
- slammed
- Past participle
- slammed
- -ing form
- slamming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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She is, as she has told us, somewhat deaf; but none the less she mentioned in her evidence that she did hear something like a door slamming half an hour before the alarm was given.
“Thanks,” said the latter, closing the register with a slam, “I have all I want; now it is for me to perform my promise.
She remembered hearing some sound which she imagined to be the slamming of a door.
Anne, bursting into tears, rushed to the hall door, slammed it until the tins on the porch wall outside rattled in sympathy, and fled through the hall and up the stairs like a whirlwind.
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