Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ram
Participle: rammed
Gerund: ramming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ram |
| you | ram |
| he;she;it | rams |
| we | ram |
| you | ram |
| they | ram |
Perfect
| I | have rammed |
| you | have rammed |
| he;she;it | has rammed |
| we | have rammed |
| you | have rammed |
| they | have rammed |
Past
| I | rammed |
| you | rammed |
| he;she;it | rammed |
| we | rammed |
| you | rammed |
| they | rammed |
Pluperfect
| I | had rammed |
| you | had rammed |
| he;she;it | had rammed |
| we | had rammed |
| you | had rammed |
| they | had rammed |
Future
| I | will ram |
| you | will ram |
| he;she;it | will ram |
| we | will ram |
| you | will ram |
| they | will ram |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rammed |
| you | will have rammed |
| he;she;it | will have rammed |
| we | will have rammed |
| you | will have rammed |
| they | will have rammed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ram |
| you | ram |
| he;she;it | ram |
| we | ram |
| you | ram |
| they | ram |
Perfect
| I | have rammed |
| you | have rammed |
| he;she;it | have rammed |
| we | have rammed |
| you | have rammed |
| they | have rammed |
Imperfect
| I | rammed |
| you | rammed |
| he;she;it | rammed |
| we | rammed |
| you | rammed |
| they | rammed |
Pluperfect
| I | had rammed |
| you | had rammed |
| he;she;it | had rammed |
| we | had rammed |
| you | had rammed |
| they | had rammed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ram |
| you | would ram |
| he;she;it | would ram |
| we | would ram |
| you | would ram |
| they | would ram |
Perfect
| I | would have rammed |
| you | would have rammed |
| he;she;it | would have rammed |
| we | would have rammed |
| you | would have rammed |
| they | would have rammed |
Imperative
| you | ram |
| we | Let's ram |
| you | ram |
Verbs conjugated like 'ram'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ram'
bam,
cam,
cram,
dam,
dram,
gam,
ham,
jam,
lam,
pam,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. ramm "male sheep," also "battering ram," earlier rom "male sheep," a W.Gmc. word (cf. M.L.G., M.Du., Du., O.H.G. ram), of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with O.N. rammr "strong," O.C.S. ramenu "impetuous, violent." The verb meaning "to beat with a heavy implement" is first recorded c.1330. Rammy is attested from 1607.
2. From Middle English rammen, from the noun (see above). Compare Old High German rammen.
Sample Sentences
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The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.
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A large stone rammed her head [2014, Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, Pan Macmillan:]
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Two snatch thieves who snatched a woman's bag experienced swift karma when their victim accidentally rammed into their motorcycle. [2016 December 29, M. Kumar, “Snatch thieves accidentally rammed by victim”, in The Star, Malaysia:]
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The other ships, either not caring or too badly-damaged to do anything about it, proceed on their mission, with König the last to fall silent, shot to pieces in a last attempt to ram the Bellerophon. [2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 25:35 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:]
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The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it. [2021 December 29, Drachinifel, 21:03 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Dark Year (Dec'41 - Dec'42), archived from the original on 19 Jul 2022:]
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To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.
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After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
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I quickly rammed another charge down the barrel and took aim.
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Again: great to take lessons in ethics from a guy currently trying to ram through a policy of freighting refugees off to cuddly Rwandan president Paul Kagame. [2023 July 4, Marina Hyde, “Who’s for political Bazball with Rishi? Voters? Tories? Anyone?”, in The Guardian:]
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They rammed the earth walls to make them more compact
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1999, Mr.Web, Size Matters review by mr. web review Group: rec.arts.movies.erotica
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like feel a soft butt against their pelvis or ram a girl really hard with piston-like speed while she begs and screams for more