stram

See also: štram

English

Etymology

Compare German stramm.

Verb

stram (third-person singular simple present strams, present participle stramming, simple past and past participle strammed)

  1. (UK, dialect, West Country, obsolete) To dash down; to beat.
  2. To spring or recoil with violence.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stram”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /stram/, [sd̥ʁɑmˀ]

Adjective

stram

  1. tight, taut
  2. strict, stringent
  3. stiff, severe, forbidding, acid, sour
  4. pungent, acrid

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Verb

stram

  1. imperative of stramme

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /strɑm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: stram
  • Rhymes: -ɑm

Adjective

stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

  1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
  • stramheid

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stram

  1. imperative of stramme

Swedish

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

stram (comparative stramare, superlative stramast)

  1. tense, taut, tight
    ett stramt koppel
    a tight leash
    en stram budget
    a tight budget
    en stram honnör
    a stiff salute
  2. (figuratively) strict, curt (of manners or the like)
    en stram min
    an austere look on someone's face

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

See also

References
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