to ream
8.3
To squeeze juice from a fruit like an orange or lemon with a tool
- verb
- /riːm/
:
exprimir
- He's reaming out a misplaced tap hole.
Examples
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She used a special tool to ream the juice out of the oranges for her homemade cocktail.
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With that, you can ream solid steel.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the middle of me reaming out a whoa.
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And then I will ream it reaming.
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If it was just down to who reams, who reams, reads cram or thrill of like books.
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To make a refreshing lemonade, you need to ream the juice from several lemons into a pitcher.
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After cutting the lemon in half, he began to ream it to extract the juice.
Synonyms
to express
vsto ream
12
7.6
To force liquid out of something by squeezing it
is usually manual and aimed at citrus using a reamer tool
to juice
vsto ream
8
1.7
To press fruits or vegetables to get their liquid
focuses on citrus and uses a handheld reamer tool
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Etymology
The verb ream, meaning 'to squeeze fruit', is easy to remember by thinking of the small tool called a reamer that you press and twist to pull out juice, so to ream an orange is to force the juice from it.