Reamed vs Breamed - What's the difference?
reamed | breamed |
(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.
(bream)
A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis , little valued as food. Several species are known.
(British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama .
An American fresh-water fish, of various species of and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus , and allied genera. See sea bream.
(nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
As verbs the difference between reamed and breamed
is that reamed is past tense of ream while breamed is past tense of bream.reamed
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(head)Anagrams
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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.