Cram

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To cram is to crowd or stuff people or things into a limited amount of space. You might be tempted to cram your mouth full of your mom's chocolate chip cookies, especially if they just came out of the oven and are still warm and gooey.

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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung 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.

Verb
prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

Verb
study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

Verb
crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"

Verb
put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"

v. t.
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. t.
To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

v. t.
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. i.
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

v. i.
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; as, a cram from an examination.

n.
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

Cram

Cram (kr?m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (kr?md); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremia to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.] 1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung 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.
Their storehouses crammed with grain.
He will cram his brass down our throats.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things.
3. 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.

Cram

Cram, v. i. 1. To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff.
Gluttony . . . . Crms, and blasphemes his feeder.
2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]

Cram

Cram, n. 1. The act of cramming. 2. Innformation hastily memorized; as. a cram from an examination. [Colloq.] 3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung 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.

To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff.

The act of cramming.

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Usage Examples

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

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