chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for toom
Adjective
  • The heartless subway mugger who slashed and badly wounded a woman on an empty Manhattan train car will stay locked up following his arrest late last week.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The day after the crash, the FWC investigators found a stash of empty booze bottles and cans on the boat.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Banking has become functionally correct but emotionally devoid, with the industry swimming in a sea of sameness.
    Michael Abbott, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Delle, devoid for so long from its intrinsic need for social interaction might be filling in the gaps by talking to himself.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • What might more readily bring about a crisis of identity than the physical alteration of the body, the change from bearer of life to barren woman?
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Most of those barren years came before a current regime that has taken English cricket to new highs of attacking intent.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Toom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toom. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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