RAMMING Synonyms: 160 Similar and Opposite Words

ramming

verb

present participle of ram

as in bumping

to come into usually forceful contact with something the truck suddenly swerved and rammed into the side of a building

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as in cramming

to fit (people or things) into a tight space rammed as many candies into his mouth as he could fit

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as in speeding

to proceed or move quickly I threw myself out of the way as a car rammed through the crosswalk

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Recent Examples of ramming In the first shooting, Homeland Security officials accused a man of weaponizing his car and ramming a law enforcement vehicle in an attempt to flee. —

Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 Watson founded the global Sea Shepherd conservation movement in the 1970s and for decades won a fearsome reputation for ramming vessels and other aggressive tactics in confrontations on the high seas that repeatedly landed him in jail. —

CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026 During the attack, the suspect ultimately exchanged gunfire with synagogue security and ignited the explosives inside his vehicle after ramming into the temple doors at a high speed. —

Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026 In Chicago, Marimar Martinez was accused of ramming her car into a Border Patrol vehicle, despite video evidence suggesting the officer swerved his car into hers; an agent subsequently shot her five times. —

Oriana Van Praag, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026 Fry had made headlines in the past for ramming a truck into a KDFW-TV building in downtown Dallas in 2018. —

Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026 Doorbell camera video from that home shows Figueroa ramming his head and body into the front door three times before running away from the home. —

Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 20 Mar. 2026 Employees at the synagogue had taken an active shooter prevention training class just weeks earlier, and the building had bollards placed around it in an attempt to slow a ramming attack. —

Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026 That team pointed out that a supermassive black hole ramming through space would have a difficult time raising a sufficiently strong wake to collapse gas into stars. —

Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026

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Craft Sake Shoten is an intimate, unpretentious place to deepen your sake knowledge while bumping shoulders with incredibly friendly locals.

— Kim Kay, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2026
Slotkin shies away from answer on 2028 Visiting Iowa used to hold more obvious significance for Democrats before the party shook up the early presidential nominating calendar last cycle, bumping Iowa from its place as the first state to weigh in on the nominations.

— Hannah Fingerhut, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026