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Rammed

Ram \Ram\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rammed (r[a^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Ramming.]

  1. To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.

    [They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins.
    --Shak.

  2. To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

    A ditch . . . was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid.
    --Arbuthnot.

Wiktionary
rammed
  1. (context colloquial English) Filled to capacity with people. v

  2. (en-pastram)

WordNet
ram
  1. v. strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" [syn: ram down, pound]

  2. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive]

  3. undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn: crash]

  4. crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, chock up, cram, wad]

  5. [also: ramming, rammed]

rammed

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Usage examples of "rammed".

This pleased rupert but then he had found out she was renting a small bedsit in Vauxhall, rammed to the ceiling with pottery turtles, leatherette footstools and flowery, applique table mats, where she would sneak off as if visiting a lover and would sit for hours, rocking backwards and forwards stroking a ceramic clown amidst a mountain of knick-knacks.

She rammed her shoulder into it without giving Jadrek a chance to see who was on the other side of it, and shoved it open before the Archivist had time to react.

The Collectivist who drove it on his suicide mission, brave with drink and the assuredness of death, had rammed the blockade at Sly Station and powered on toward Spit Bazaar, but the militia had detonated the train as it approached, tearing a hole in the stitching of arches that went the length of New Crobuzon.

Sermon sprang in pursuit, grabbed him by the collar and threw him sideways on top of the blameless Bateman, whose face was rammed down against his own desk-lid with such violence that his spectacles snapped at the bridge and a lens flew in each direction.

She rammed a crotch and a brisket, got her hair free, then jolted the armpit of a grasping man.

The squire who held her arm was still gazing slack-jawed at the merman, and it was with surprising ease that CC rammed her knee into his groin and wrenched her arm from his grasp.

I could even wonder what rabbits had to do with anything, Merv jumped from his chair as if Cherry had rammed an electric cattle prod to his man-bits, and ran past us out of the stinking office.

I loaded up the trusty Smith and Kick butt west of the Pennines and rammed it into my shoulder holster.

Galahad rammed his spear into a round Prankish shield and jerked it back.

Howling with misery in expectation of the pain, she rammed backward and screamed when the blow rattled her bones like dice in a cup.

Once he rammed his hand against the swash of hair, left it standing in a bush, and threw a quick look of disapproval at Vincent.

The phone dropped from her shoulder and bounced off something, probably the handbrake, then got crushed against the seat as she rammed the tranny into a higher gear.

While the triceratops rammed the first tyrannosaurus again, tearing at its insides, the second tyrannosaurus was lumbering through the forest directly toward them, smashing everything in its path underfoot.

They fell back, he elbowed one, kicked the other unsportsmanly, rammed the princess through a little clump of staring men and women behind.

Tombstone rammed the throttles forward to full afterburner and clawed for altitude once more.