scram¹ /skram/ (informal)

(esp in the imperative) to go away

scram² /skram/

1. Puny
2. Withered

1. To benumb (SW Eng)
2. To paralyse (SW Eng)
3. To shut down (a nuclear reactor), esp in an emergency

An emergency shut-down of a nuclear reactor

scram³ or scramb /skram/ (dialect)

To scratch with claws or nails

• mechanically
• mechanicalness
• mechanical powers
• mechanicals
• mechanical tissue
• mechanical tissues
• mechanician
• mechanicians
• mechanics
• mechanics' institute
• mechanisation
• mechanisations
• mechanise
• mechanised
• mechanises
• mechanising
• mechanism
• mechanisms
• mechanist
• mechanistic
• mechanistically
• mechanists
• mechanization
• mechanizations
• mechanize