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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. crowd or pack to capacity;
- Example: "the theater was jampacked"
[syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]

2. put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled;
- Example: "cram books into the suitcase"

3. study intensively, as before an exam;
- Example: "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;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cram \Cram\, v. i. 1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff. [1913 Webster] Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cram \Cram\, n. 1. The act of cramming. [1913 Webster] 2. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak. [1913 Webster] He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. [1913 Webster] Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cram 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