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Antonyms for bam

Grammar : Verb
Spell : bam
Phonetic Transcription : bæm

Definition of bam

Origin :
  • interjection, imitative of the sound of a hard hit, first recorded 1922 (from 1917 as the sound of an artillery shell bursting). Middle English had a verb bammen "to hit or strike" (late 14c.). A literary work from c.1450 represents the sound of repeated impact by Lus, bus! las, das!, and Middle English had lushe "a stroke, blow" (c.1400); lushen "to strike, knock, beat" (c.1300).
  • As in wallop : verb beat, hit
Example sentences :
  • It is now nine o'clock and in an hour the people of Bam will be asleep.
  • Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin
  • Pairing, or bam tush, as the Indians call it, is a simple stitch.
  • Extract from : « The Child's Rainy Day Book » by Mary White
  • They'll drive old Bess all over the country before they drive her to the bam.
  • Extract from : « Plays » by Susan Glaspell
  • As a diplomatist he could scarcely show more indifference to the Alabama claim, if the claim itself were All a Bam.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 » by Various
  • I can bam as well as any man when bam is the word, but when fact is the play, I am right up and down, and true as a trivet.
  • Extract from : « The Attache » by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • There is a sarvant at a house I visit at, that I suspicion is a bit of a bam, and the critter shows both his wit and sense.
  • Extract from : « The Attache » by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • Fussing back and forth, thuslike, I makes yet more acquaintances and then—bam!
  • Extract from : « J. Poindexter, Colored » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
  • Her presence is some like the Bam of Gilead, and her sweet face and gentle ways make her like an angel in the sick room.
  • Extract from : « Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife » by Marietta Holley
  • Hence if bam be likewise a corruption of brun, we have Brunberg, with Brunhull and Brunedge in immediate contiguity.
  • Extract from : « On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire » by Charles Hardwick
  • Shah Sevar pulls up his dromedary and orders a halt in muffled tones, as though he feared that his voice might be heard in Bam.
  • Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin

Synonyms for bam

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