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toom
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toom

adjective \ˈtüm\

Definition of TOOM

chiefly Scottish
: empty

Examples of TOOM

  1. <the little shop in Edinburgh now stood toom>

Origin of TOOM

Middle English, from Old English tōm — more at teem
First Known Use: before 12th century

Related to TOOM

Synonyms
bare, blank, clean, devoid, stark, empty [chiefly Scottish], vacant, vacuous, void
Antonyms
full

Rhymes with TOOM

bloom, boom, broom, brume, combe, cwm, doom, flume, fume, gloom, glume, groom, khoum, loom, neume, plume, rheum, room, spume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

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