RAMS Synonyms: 156 Similar and Opposite Words

rams

verb

present tense third-person singular of ram

as in bumps

to come into usually forceful contact with something the truck suddenly swerved and rammed into the side of a building

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as in stuffs

to fit (people or things) into a tight space rammed as many candies into his mouth as he could fit

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as in speeds

to proceed or move quickly I threw myself out of the way as a car rammed through the crosswalk

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Recent Examples of rams Boston Blue's first season ends on a cliffhanger, as an unknown assailant intentionally rams Brian with a truck, pushing his car into the river. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026

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Did join Kylian Mbappe and Ferenc Puskas as one of only three players to score a European Cup knockout-phase brace against Barcelona at Camp Nou, which bumps him up the list a bit.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 May 2026
The department bumps the call to a higher-priority response (Priority 1) due to the potential for violence.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026

Definition of bumps

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Once a seasonal delicacy, Jimmy’s sources squash blossoms ($25) year-round, stuffs them with ricotta and Parmigiano-Reggiano and lightly batters and fries them.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Wilson is again a dominant force on both ends of the floor, stuffs the box score with points, rebounds and blocks, and has improved every season while keeping the Aces as a perennial contender.

— Annie Costabile, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of stuffs

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Industry partnership speeds development Castelion is developing Blackbeard through a partnership led by the Future Capability Development and Integration Aviation Rapid Capabilities Cell within the Portfolio Acquisition Executive Aviation.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
Directed by Mert Alas, the cinematic visual opens on a desert road flanked by mountains, a car speeds through, which is later revealed to be driven by Miley.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of speeds

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There are currently more than 85,000 customers without power across the Northeast, including New York City and Connecticut, as an intensifying early-season nor’easter slams the region with strong wind, soaking rain and coastal flooding.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
Not thunder, not cobwebs, not a door that slams itself for union reasons.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of slams

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Then there’s the Tesseract, which takes the scooter formula and crams it with an almost unreasonable amount of technology.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
Neutron stars are considered so extreme because the process that creates them crams between one and two times the mass of the sun down into a sphere with a width of around 12 miles (20 kilometers).

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of crams

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As the industry rushes to try to understand how to capitalize on that momentum, Parsons is already looking ahead.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
At 6-3, 255 pounds, Howell was one of several top pass rushers in the draft who was dinged for arm length but is already impressing with varied rushes through the first two weeks.

— PJ Green September 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of rushes

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His characters confront moments of reckoning—some comic, others karmic, often both—where self-belief collides with a buckling status quo.

— Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
This downward trend collides with the rising risk of flooding across many areas of the United States, driven by climate change that can strengthen hurricanes and worsen downpours far from the coasts.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of collides

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That wrestling match itself, however, makes for compelling theater about as often as the camel squeezes through the needle.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
The jobs market has been resilient even as stubbornly high inflation squeezes businesses and households.

— Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

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