Dreamed vs Reamed - What's the difference?
dreamed | reamed |
(dream)
* 1952 , (Ernest Hemingway), (The Old Man and the Sea) :
(ream)
To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
* Sir Walter Scott
To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
To remove (material) by reaming.
To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
(slang) To yell at or berate.
(slang, vulgar) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way, by analogy with definition 1.
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
An abstract large amount of something.
As verbs the difference between dreamed and reamed
is that dreamed is (dream) while reamed is (ream).dreamed
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (irregular form)Verb
(head)- He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains.
reamed
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*ream
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) reme, rem, from (etyl) . See also (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)- a huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret
Etymology 2
From (etyl) remen, rimen, . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
From (etyl) reeme, from (etyl) raime, .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I can't go - I still have reams of work left.