Cram

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff.
  • v. To fill too tightly.
  • v. To gorge with food.
  • v. To eat quickly and greedily.
  • v. Informal To prepare (students) hastily for an impending examination.
  • verb-intransitive. To gorge oneself with food.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To study hastily for an impending examination: was up all night cramming for the history midterm.
  • n. A group that has been crammed together; a crush.
  • n. Informal Hasty study for an imminent examination.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of cramming.
  • n. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
  • n. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  • v. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
  • v. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
  • v. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
  • v. Study hard, swot.
  • v. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
  • v. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity.
  • v. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
  • v. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
  • verb-intransitive. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
  • verb-intransitive. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
  • n. The act of cramming.
  • n. Information hastily memorized.
  • n. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To press or drive, particularly thrust (one thing), into another forcibly; stuff; crowd: as, to cram things into a basket or bag.
  • To fill with more than can be properly, conveniently, or comfortably contained; fill to repletion; overcrowd: as, to cram a room with people.
  • To fill with food beyond what is necessary, or to satiety; stuff.
  • To endeavor to qualify (a pupil or one's self) for an examination, or other special purpose, in a comparatively short time, by storing the memory with information, not so much with a view to real learning as to passing the examination; coach.
  • To tell lies to; fill up with false stories.
  • To eat greedily or to satiety; stuff one's self.
  • To store the memory hastily with facts, for the purpose of passing an examination or for some other immediate use; in general, to acquire knowledge hurriedly by a forced process, without assimilating it: as, to cram for a civil-service examination; to cram for a lecture.
  • n. In weaving, a warp having more than two threads in each dent or split of the reed.
  • n. The act or the result of cramming the memory; information acquired hurriedly and not assimilated.
  • n. A lie.
  • n. A densely packed gathering or crowd; a crush; a ‘jam.’
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
  • v. put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled
  • v. crowd or pack to capacity
  • v. study intensively, as before an exam
  • Verb Form
    crammed    cramming    crams   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fix    set    set up    prepare    ready    gear up    stuff    hit the books    study   
    Cross Reference
    cram-paper   
    Variant
    crammed    cramming   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stuff   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abram    Am    Cam    Dam    Durham    Graeme    Graham    Ham    Hamm    Lamb   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts