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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRAM, v.t.
1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.
2. To fill with food beyond satiety; to stuff.
Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers.
3. To thrust in by force; to crowd.
Fate has crammed us all into one lease.
CRAM, v.i. TO eat greedily or beyond satiety; to stuff.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"
3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]
4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

Merriam Webster's

I. biographical name Donald James 1919-2001 American chemist II. biographical name Ralph Adams 1863-1942 American architect & author

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (crammed; cramming) Etymology: Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian; akin to Old Norse kremja to squeeze Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to pack tight ; jam <cram a suitcase with clothes> <a novel crammed with surprises> 2. a. to fill with food to satiety ; stuff b. to eat voraciously ; bolt <the child crams her food> 3. to thrust in or as if in a rough or forceful manner <crammed the letters into his pocket> 4. to prepare hastily for an examination <cram the students for the test> intransitive verb 1. to eat greedily or to satiety ; stuff 2. to study a subject intensively especially for an imminent examination • crammer noun II. noun Date: 1810 1. a compressed multitude or crowd ; crush 2. last-minute study especially for an examination

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (crammed, cramming) 1 tr. a fill to bursting; stuff (the room was crammed). b (foll. by in, into) force (a thing) into (cram the sandwiches into the bag). 2 tr. & intr. prepare for an examination by intensive study. 3 tr. (often foll. by with) feed (poultry etc.) to excess. 4 tr. & intr. colloq. eat greedily. Phrases and idioms: cram-full as full as possible. cram in push in to bursting point (crammed in another five minutes' work). Etymology: OE crammian f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cram Cram (kr[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (kr[a^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.] 1. 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. Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift. 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. --Locke. Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. --Shak. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cram Cram, n. 1. The act of cramming. 2. Information 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crams, cramming, crammed) 1. If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them. While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket... I crammed my bag full of swimsuits and T-shirts and caught the sleeper down to Beziers... She crammed her mouth with caviar. = stuff VERB: V n prep/adv, V n full of n, V n with n 2. If people cram into a place or vehicle or cram a place or vehicle, so many of them enter it at one time that it is completely full. We crammed into my car and set off... Friends and admirers crammed the chapel at the small Los Angeles cemetery where Monroe is buried. = pack VERB: V prep, V n 3. If you are cramming for an examination, you are learning as much as possible in a short time just before you take the examination. She was cramming for her Economics exam... VERB: V for n • cramming It would take two or three months of cramming to prepare for Vermont's bar exam.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Stuff, gorge, glut, fill full, fill to repletion. 2. Crowd, press, compress. 3. Prepare for examination, grind, coach. II. v. n. 1. Eat to satiety, eat greedily, stuff, gorge or glut one's self, gluttonize. 2. (Colloq.) Study for examination.

Moby Thesaurus

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