Impact
Impact verb - To come into usually forceful contact with something.
Usage example: the damage sustained when a car going 40 miles an hour impacts with a brick wall
Slam and impact are semantically related. in collision topic. In some cases you can use "Slam" instead the word "Impact" as a verb or a noun.
Nearby Words: impacted, impacting, impactless
Slam
Slam noun - A forceful coming together of two things.
Usage example: the sudden slam of my head against the trunk of the car
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Also Moon Spiral Heart Attack (the page image) and Rainbow Moon Heart Ache slam her opponents with a giant heart that shatters on impact.
Source: Heart Beat-Down -
For Inspector Gadget, it would show Gadget skating by the logo (sans the dot on the I); he'd stumble, and the gadget mallet would pop out of his hat, slam into the wall behind him as he flailed away, with the impact of the mallet becoming the dot on the I.
Source: Vanity Plate -
A couple of Street Fighter characters have cameos in the Slam Masters series (such as Chun-Li, Honda, and Balrog) and the Slam Masters are referenced in Hugo's ending in 2nd Impact.
Source: Shared Universe
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