Antonyms for tamp
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : tamp |
| Phonetic Transcription : tæmp |
- abstain
- aid
- allocate
- allow
- assist
- clear
- continue
- diet
- dismantle
- disperse
- dispose
- distribute
- enlarge
- expand
- extend
- fast
- free
- halt
- help
- increase
- keep
- leave alone
- lengthen
- let go
- let out
- loosen
- lose
- maintain
- nibble
- open
- pull
- refuse
- release
- retreat
- stop
- stretch
- surrender
- tap
- unblock
- uncompress
- unfasten
- unpack
- untie
- yield
Definition of tamp
Origin :- 1819, "to fill (a hole containing an explosive) with dirt or clay before blasting," a workmen's word, perhaps a back-formation from tampion, that word being mistaken as a present participle (*tamping).
- As in jam : verb squeeze in; compress
- As in pack : verb fill, compact
- As in ram : verb bang into; pack forcibly
- As in cram : verb fill to overflowing; compress
- I could tamp a keg of powder so snugly into the hole of those skunks!
- Extract from : « The Face of the Fields » by Dallas Lore Sharp
- Colonel Fraser paused to tamp down the tobacco in his pipe with a fingertip.
- Extract from : « Dave Dawson with the R.A.F » by R. Sidney Bowen
- It is always a profitable labor to tamp the ground firmly about all the posts every spring.
- Extract from : « American Grape Training » by Liberty Hyde (L.H.) Bailey
- The amount of tamping is indicated by the fact that about 16 men out of 72 on each shift did nothing but tamp.
- Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
- Care was taken to tamp the concrete so as to force the concrete stone into but not through the facing.
- Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
- No scaffolding whatever was used and only one man was required overhead to dump the buckets and tamp the concrete into place.
- Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
- Pour in the cement quite wet, and tamp it down occasionally until full.
- Extract from : « Carpentry and Woodwork » by Edwin W. Foster
- Then add sufficient of above solution to hold it together without being plastic, as that would be too wet to tamp.
- Extract from : « Electric Gas Lighting » by Norman H. Schneider
- Machines designed to tamp the concrete and strike it off to the required cross section are also employed for finishing.
- Extract from : « American Rural Highways » by T. R. Agg
- Tampion, tamp′i-un, n. the stopper used to close the mouth of a cannon or mortar.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) » by Various
Synonyms for tamp
- arrange
- bear
- beat
- bind
- block
- butt
- cease
- charge
- chock
- choke
- clog
- collide with
- compact
- compress
- condense
- congest
- contract
- cram
- crash
- crowd
- crush
- dash
- devour
- dig
- drive
- drive in
- drum
- elbow
- force
- gobble
- gorge
- guzzle
- halt
- hammer
- heap
- hit
- hook
- impact
- ingurgitate
- insert
- jack
- jam
- jam-pack
- jostle
- lade
- load
- mob
- obstruct
- overcrowd
- overeat
- overfill
- pack
- pack 'em in
- pack in
- pack it in
- pack like sardines
- pile
- plunge
- poke
- pound
- press
- push
- put away
- ram
- ram in
- run
- run into
- sardine
- satiate
- shove
- sink
- slam
- slop
- slosh
- smash
- squash
- squeeze
- squish
- stab
- stall
- stick
- stive
- strike
- strike head-on
- stuff
- tamp
- throng
- thrust
- thrust in
- top off
- wad
- wedge
- wolf
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