Thesaurus results for SLAMS

slams 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of slam

as in shuts

to shove into a closed position with force and noise please don't slam the door every time you step out

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as in slaps

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner she slammed the ball deep into center field

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as in collides

to come into usually forceful contact with something the car slammed into the wall with a fearful crunch

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as in attacks

to criticize harshly and usually publicly slammed the cast members for forgetting their lines on opening night

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slams

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noun

plural of slam

as in blows

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument gave the stubborn nail one last slam with the hammer

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as in claps

a loud explosive sound shut the door with a loud slam

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as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody sported a gang tattoo on his arm that had gotten him plenty of respect in the slam

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outsides

as in collisions

a forceful coming together of two things the sudden slam of my head against the trunk of the car

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In one of the most memorable panels in superherocomic history, Bane, having beaten Batman down in his own Batcave, lifts the hero over his head and slams him down over his knee, breaking his back. — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026 Robin Williams' daughter slams AI videos of her father, urges fans to 'stop doing this'Need a news break? — Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 Or father, for that matter, especially after Sebastiano repeatedly slams his son’s head against a sink. — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026 This is happening as a demographic shift to an older, grayer population slams Colorado. — Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 5 July 2026 Taylor Sheridan slams critics Sheridan's series are all hits with regular people, but he's routinely been a target for critics. — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026 His hand fans out into a wave, then the door slams shut. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026 Granit Xhaka slams it into the right corner of the net. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 June 2026 There's somatic empathy, the automatic wince when someone slams their hand in a door. — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

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Other dynamic movements, like ball slams, kettlebell swings, dumbbell chops, and medicine ball throws, can also develop muscular power. — Jenessa Connor, HEALTH, 17 Aug. 2026 By the time Joint played her first Grand Slam main-draw match, in 2024, Williams had won twenty-three slams, and had been off the tour for a year and a half. — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 July 2026 At the Italian Open in May, stars like Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff raised the possibility of a player boycott of the slams if their demands were not met. — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 2 June 2026 Sinner is now the first man to lose more than one match at slams as a top seed after holding a 2-0 lead in the Open Era, according to ESPN Insights. — Thomas Schlachter, CNN Money, 28 May 2026 Flair and Ripley then hit stereo fallaway slams, and the Babyface trio celebrated with a hug. — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 Had his childhood dream come true, Kaszas would be supporting himself by executing body slams, headlocks and double leg takedowns as a professional wrestler. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026 On the small screen, the influencer Gabriella Carr recently drew her sizable flock to a rejection spreadsheet, where the video creator and actress means to track all her professional door-slams with an eye to racking ’em up. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026 Wilson had a pair of thunderous slams as well as converting a three-point play, pushing North Carolina to a 52-37 lead at the break. — Arkansas Online, 1 Feb. 2026

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Both failures are expensive in flood response, since a miss floods a warehouse and a false alarm shuts one down for no reason.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
When Rhaenyra learns Helaena jumped to her death at the episode’s conclusion, Rhaenyra shuts the window, snuffing out the last of her compassion for her father’s other children.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of shuts

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Soto, looking irritated, reaches out and slaps him upside the head.

— Sylvia Varnham O’Regan, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026
Helmut Haller, West Germany vs England, 1966 Ray Wilson misjudges his headed clearance, Haller gathers it on the edge of the box and, just before Bobby Moore can close him down, slaps a right-footed shot into the far corner.

— Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026

Definition of slaps

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Construction accidents are common in India, where rapid infrastructure growth often collides with fragile geology, construction lapses, extreme weather and safety standards.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Dreaming explores what happens when 21st-century gender fluidity collides with the more rigid identity categories enforced by the state in a time of war.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of collides

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The entire gymnasium roared with claps and cheers, the loudest and most fervent applause of the evening.

— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
The Golf Channel would always be playing in the background; the soft claps were the soundtrack to our slow Saturdays.

— Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of claps

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Of the more than $3 billion that Miami-Dade plans to collect in property taxes next year, roughly 70 cents of every dollar fund the county’s Sheriff’s Office, fire department, jails, roads and transit costs, and Jackson, the Herald analysis found.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
In fact, in 2022, a year after the Humphrey decision, 74% of people in California jails were still unsentenced and awaiting trial.

— Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of jails

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Later experiments at the Beijing Spectrometer and Belle in Japan supported its existence, but all of those observations came from collisions between electrons and positrons.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026
Projects on the high injury network, which documents areas where serious collisions happen most frequently, are eligible for a separate pot of funding under Vision Zero.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026

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