rammed
Crashed into hard
Rammed is the past tense of ram—to strike or push with force.
A car rammed into a barrier.
Protesters rammed through the gates.
The word suggests violent, deliberate impact: The ship rammed the iceberg.
Rammed earth is soil compressed into solid building material.
Something packed tight is rammed full: The bar was rammed with people.
Applied pressure to move
- shovedPushed with force
- forcedMade to occur unwillingly
- drivenIntensely determined to achieve
- plungedDropped suddenly and steeply
jammed · slammed · thrust · wedged · lodged · impaled · inserted · plowed
Compressed by repeated blows
- packedFilled to capacity
- compressedReduced by pressure
- poundedStruck hard, repeatedly
- hammeredSeverely intoxicated or pounded
beaten · stamped · consolidated · densified · compacted · sledgehammered
Filled to capacity
- jammedUnable to move freely
- crammedOverfilled or overstuffed
- stuffedFilled beyond capacity
- overcrowdedFilled beyond capacity
sardined · chock-full · overflowing · teeming · swarming · mobbed · heaving · thronged
pushed
Applied pressure to move
plunged · jammed · slammed · thrust · wedged · lodged · impaled · inserted · plowed · bulldozed
tamped
Compressed by repeated blows
- packedFilled to capacity
- compressedReduced by pressure
- poundedStruck hard, repeatedly
hammered · beaten · stamped · consolidated · densified · compacted · sledgehammered
packed
Filled to capacity
overcrowded · sardined · chock-full · overflowing · teeming · swarming · mobbed · heaving · thronged · brimming
crash
Sudden violent impact
collision · bump · accident · wreck · pileup · rear-end · sideswipe · fender-bender · shunt · prang
- ramming speed
- rammed something down someone's throatCompelled to accept repeatedly
- ramming something down someone's throatImposing ideas aggressively
- rammed earthCompacted soil as building material