ramverb [ I or T ]
uk/ræm/us/ræm/-mm-to hit or push something with force:
Someone rammed (into) my car while it was parked outside my house.
He rammed the sweets/his pipe into his mouth.
I rammed down the soil around the fence post.
She slammed the door and rammed home the bolt (= closed it forcefully and completely).
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Pushing and shoving
- barge
- bring
- bring sb down
- bundle
- dig
- force
- frogmarch
- heave
- jostle
- nudge
- propel
- push
- push off
- push sb/sth over
- put sth out 1
- repel
- scrum
- shoulder
- shove
- wheel
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Idiom(s)
ram sth down sb's throat
ram sth home
Phrasal verb(s)
ram sth into sb
ramnoun [ C ]
uk/ræm/us/ræm/ram noun [ C ] (SHEEP)
an adult male sheep that can breed
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Names for the male & female of animals
- billy goat
- bitch
- boar
- boomer
- buck
- bull
- bullock
- cob
- drake
- drone
- ewe
- gelding
- mare
- nanny goat
- sow 1
- stag
- stallion
- steer
- tigress
- tom
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Sheep & goats
ram noun [ C ] (EQUIPMENT)
also battering ram a piece of equipment used to hit something and force it open or break it:
They used a ram to break down the door.
a moving part in a machine that puts pressure or force on something
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Machines - general words
- 3-D printer
- automatic
- backhoe
- bot
- cash machine
- cement mixer
- cloud chamber
- compactor
- contraption
- cotton gin
- crank
- derrick
- gadget
- humidifier
- lift
- Mk
- rotor
- selector
- sensitive
- vending machine
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Machines - parts