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slam

noun as in loud noise from impact

noun as in harsh criticism

verb as in criticize very harshly

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A life-threatening storm surge and damaging waves are forecast to slam Jamaica’s southern coast through Tuesday, the weather service said.

Be sure to read: Hotel guests are slamming resort fees as ‘the biggest scam in travel’

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Maybe the world needed to be slammed up against the boards, even if a roughing or slashing penalty is eventually called.

Rival hip-hop magazines the Source and XXL are locked in an increasingly ugly feud that has reared its head in advertising boycotts, on rap records, and in nasty, over-the-top gangsta editorial slams against one another.

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Harris also slammed business leaders and institutions in America who have, in her view, too easily bowed to the president's demands.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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