cram
cram is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
- transitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
- intransitive verb. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
- noun. The act of cramming.
- noun. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
- noun. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- 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"
Synonyms
bone, drum, swot, jam, jampack, ram, wad
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cram:
Common word forms
crams, crammed, crammer, cramming
Words from these letters
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