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Synonyms for lam

The synonym for lam recorded in this bank is getaway, in the sense "a rapid escape (as by criminals)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for lam

getawaynoun, in the sense "a rapid escape (as by criminals)"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for lam.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineActions

a rapid escape (as by criminals)

After the expose he had to take it on the lam.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

getaway

Same sentence, swapped: After the expose he had to take it on the getaway.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where lam turns up in the game

lam is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play lam

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lam reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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