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. (Britain, dialectal, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stram.

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

Adjective

stram

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

Inflection
Inflection of stram
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular stram strammere strammest2
Neuter singular stramt strammere strammest2
Plural stramme strammere strammest2
Definite attributive1 stramme strammere strammeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Verb

stram

  1. imperative of stramme

Dutch

Etymology

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

Adjective

stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

  1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

Inflection
Inflection of stram
uninflected stram
inflected stramme
comparative strammer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial stramstrammerhet stramst
het stramste
indefinite m./f. sing. strammestrammerestramste
n. sing. stramstrammerstramste
plural strammestrammerestramste
definite strammestrammerestramste
partitive stramsstrammers—

Derived terms
  • stramheid

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stram

  1. imperative of stramme
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