Lam

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To give a thorough beating to; thrash.
  • verb-intransitive. To strike; wallop.
  • verb-intransitive. To escape, as from prison.
  • n. Flight, especially from the law: escaped convicts on the lam.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ﻝ. It is preceded by ك and followed by م.
  • n. Used in the expression on the lam to mean that a person is fleeing law enforcement, possibly in hiding.
  • v. To beat or thrash
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To beat soundly; to thrash.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To thrash; beat.
  • n. An obsolete spelling of lamb.
  • n. In weaving, a leaf or heddle.
  • n. An abbreviation of Lamentations.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give a thrashing to; beat hard
  • n. a rapid escape (as by criminals)
  • v. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  • Verb Form
    lammed    lamming    lams   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beat    work over    beat-up    flight    escape   
    Variant
    lammed    lamming   
    Form
    lammed    lamming    lambaste   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    thrash   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abram    Am    Cam    Dam    Durham    Graeme    Graham    Ham    Hamm    Lamb   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    khymih    pyniap    gzhan    gsum    shat    gyi    suk    khynnah    leit    jaka