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Antonyms for slam
slæmslam
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Princeton's WordNet
slam, sweepnoun
winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
Synonyms:
barb, dig, sweep, sweep oar, shot, chimneysweeper, shaft, expanse, jibe, end run, gibe, chimneysweepslamnoun
the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects
slamnoun
a forceful impact that makes a loud noise
shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibeverb
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
"his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
Synonyms:
calamus, beam, shaft, archeological site, stab, peter, shaft of light, diaphysis, guessing, excavation, ray of light, pecker, digging, snap, jab, guesswork, cock, rotating shaft, blastoff, stroke, ray, barb, prick, shooter, scape, scene, spear, dick, dig, crack, tool, lance, snapshot, shooting, light beam, quill, gibe, guess, beam of light, sweep, putz, jibe, irradiation, injection, pellet, dead reckoning, shotslam, bangverb
close violently
"He slammed the door shut"
Synonyms:
jazz, mosh, have sex, do it, thrash, bang, screw, slam dance, sleep together, love, spang, know, lie with, roll in the hay, get it on, flap down, have it away, be intimate, eff, have a go at it, get laid, hump, bed, make out, have intercourse, have it off, bonk, sleep with, make loveslam, bangverb
strike violently
"slam the ball"
Synonyms:
jazz, mosh, have sex, do it, thrash, bang, screw, slam dance, sleep together, love, spang, know, lie with, roll in the hay, get it on, flap down, have it away, be intimate, eff, have a go at it, get laid, hump, bed, make out, have intercourse, have it off, bonk, sleep with, make loveslam dance, slam, mosh, thrashverb
dance the slam dance
Synonyms:
thresh about, jactitate, mosh, toss, thrash, bang, slam dance, convulse, slash, clobber, lick, flap down, bat, drub, cream, thresh, thrash about, flail, lamslam, flap downverb
throw violently
"He slammed the book on the table"
Synonyms:
flap down, mosh, thrash, slam dance, bang
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
SLAM
Synonyms:
CD150, see there
Signal lymphocyte activation molecule
How to use slam in a sentence?
Get ready for a long haul as you're talking two to three years, this is not a slam dunk case.
Every time he broke or hit on the brakes, I would slam forward and then he'd start driving again, slam back the other way, i felt less than human, the way they treated you.
I am still not thinking about this too much, to be honest, though I am answering the questions( about Grand Slam), i am not going to put big pressure on myself in Paris to complete Grand Slam. In the end, every tournament is a different experience, and Angelique Kerber have the two weeks to get through.
We had them on the ropes for a bit in the second set but they came through and that's why they're grand slam champions.
Stefan Edberg's one of the people that actually made me a better player, in the matches against Stefan Edberg, I went through a lot of different emotions and things that allowed me to understand what I need to do to become a better player and to win against him and win grand slam trophies.
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