drum
verb/drʌm/
/drʌm/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they drum | /drʌm/ /drʌm/ |
| he / she / it drums | /drʌmz/ /drʌmz/ |
| past simple drummed | /drʌmd/ /drʌmd/ |
| past participle drummed | /drʌmd/ /drʌmd/ |
| -ing form drumming | /ˈdrʌmɪŋ/ /ˈdrʌmɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to play a drum
- Then they started chanting and drumming and stamping their feet.
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- [transitive, intransitive] drum (something) on something to make a sound by hitting a surface again and again
- Impatiently, she drummed her fingers on the table.
- His fingers drummed on the door frame.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Middle Dutch or Low German tromme, of imitative origin.
Idioms
See drum in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydrum something into somebody’s head
(also drum something into somebody)
- to make somebody remember something by repeating it a lot of times
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