cram
VerbWordNet 3.0
Verb (4)
- crowd or pack to capacity“the theater was jampacked”Synonyms: jamjampackramchock upwad
- put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled“cram books into the suitcase”
- study intensively, as before an exam“I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam”Synonyms: grind awaydrumbone upswotget upmug upswot upbone
- prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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]
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]
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]