Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lam
Participle: lammed
Gerund: lamming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lam |
| you | lam |
| he;she;it | lams |
| we | lam |
| you | lam |
| they | lam |
Perfect
| I | have lammed |
| you | have lammed |
| he;she;it | has lammed |
| we | have lammed |
| you | have lammed |
| they | have lammed |
Past
| I | lammed |
| you | lammed |
| he;she;it | lammed |
| we | lammed |
| you | lammed |
| they | lammed |
Pluperfect
| I | had lammed |
| you | had lammed |
| he;she;it | had lammed |
| we | had lammed |
| you | had lammed |
| they | had lammed |
Future
| I | will lam |
| you | will lam |
| he;she;it | will lam |
| we | will lam |
| you | will lam |
| they | will lam |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lammed |
| you | will have lammed |
| he;she;it | will have lammed |
| we | will have lammed |
| you | will have lammed |
| they | will have lammed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lam |
| you | lam |
| he;she;it | lam |
| we | lam |
| you | lam |
| they | lam |
Perfect
| I | have lammed |
| you | have lammed |
| he;she;it | have lammed |
| we | have lammed |
| you | have lammed |
| they | have lammed |
Imperfect
| I | lammed |
| you | lammed |
| he;she;it | lammed |
| we | lammed |
| you | lammed |
| they | lammed |
Pluperfect
| I | had lammed |
| you | had lammed |
| he;she;it | had lammed |
| we | had lammed |
| you | had lammed |
| they | had lammed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lam |
| you | would lam |
| he;she;it | would lam |
| we | would lam |
| you | would lam |
| they | would lam |
Perfect
| I | would have lammed |
| you | would have lammed |
| he;she;it | would have lammed |
| we | would have lammed |
| you | would have lammed |
| they | would have lammed |
Imperative
| you | lam |
| we | Let's lam |
| you | lam |
Verbs conjugated like 'lam'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lam'
bam,
cam,
clam,
dam,
flam,
gam,
glam,
ham,
jam,
lab,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "flight," as in
on the lam, 1897, from a U.S. slang verb meaning "to run off" (1886), of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from the first element of lambaste, which was used in British student slang for "beat" since 1596; if so, it would give the word the same etymological sense as
beat it.
2. From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną. See: Old English '
lemian', Proto-Germanic '
*lamjaną'.
Sample Sentences
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1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,
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An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
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They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […] [1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998, Chapter:]
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[Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam! [1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4]
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[…]and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken. [1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:]