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ream

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"Paper quantity"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɹiːm/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aemrStarts with REnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
1R2E3A4M

Definitions

  1. enlarge with a reamer

Word origin

From Middle English rem, reme, from Old English rēam (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *réwgʰmn̥ (“to sour [milk]”).

Used in a sentence

  • a huge pewter measuring pot […] which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret
  • The accountants requested reams of financial records.
  • I can't go – I still have reams of work left.

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