ram
1. a tool for driving or forcing something by impact
• Hypernyms:
tool
• Hyponyms:
battering ram, rammer
• Part Meronyms:
head
2. uncastrated adult male sheep
- a British term is 'tup'
• Syn:
tup
• Hypernyms:
sheep
• Part Meronyms:
horn
1. strike or drive against with a heavy impact (Freq. 2)
- ram the gate with a sledgehammer
- pound on the door
• Syn:
ram down, pound
• Derivationally related forms:
pound (for: pound), rammer
• Hypernyms:
thrust
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
2. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically (Freq. 2)
- She rammed her mind into focus
- He drives me mad
• Syn:
force, drive
• See Also:
ram down, drive in (for: drive)
• Derivationally related forms:
drive (for: drive)
• Hypernyms:
thrust
• Hyponyms:
toe, toenail
• Verb Group:
drive
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
3. undergo damage or destruction on impact (Freq. 1)
- the plane crashed into the ocean
- The car crashed into the lamp post
• Syn:
crash
• Derivationally related forms:
crash (for: crash)
• Hypernyms:
collide, clash
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
4. crowd or pack to capacity
- the theater was jampacked
• Syn:
jam, jampack, chock up, cram, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), jam (for: jam)
• Hypernyms:
stuff
• Verb Group:
cram
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
- Somebody ----s something with something
- They ram the books into the box
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