cram

Definitions

1. 1transitive 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.

2. 2transitive verb

   To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

3. 3transitive 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.

4. 4intransitive verb

   To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

5. 5intransitive verb

   To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.

6. 6noun

   The act of cramming.

7. 7noun

   Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.

8. 8noun

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

9. 9verb

   prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

10. 10verb

    study intensively, as before an exam

    "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

    Synonyms

    bonedrumswot
11. 11verb

    crowd or pack to capacity

    "the theater was jampacked"

    Synonyms

    jamramwad
12. 12verb

    put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled

    "cram books into the suitcase"