stram

See also: štram

English

Etymology

Compare German stramm.

Verb

1. (UK, dialect, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• MSTAR, S.M.A.R.T., SMART, Smart, marts, smart, tarms, trams

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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
Indefinte common singular	stram	strammere	strammest2
Indefinite 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. (deprecated template usage) imperative of stramme

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Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɑm/

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• Hyphenation: stram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Adjective

stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

Inflection

Declension of stram
uninflected	stram
inflected	stramme
comparative	strammer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		stram	strammer	het stramst het stramste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	stramme	strammere	stramste
	n. sing.	stram	strammer	stramste
	plural	stramme	strammere	stramste
definite		stramme	strammere	stramste
partitive		strams	strammers	—

Derived terms

• stramheid

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stram

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of stramme