jam

jam is a 3-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of frock for children. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A kind of frock for children.
2. noun. See Jamb.
3. transitive verb. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.
4. transitive verb. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door.
5. transitive verb. To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
6. noun. A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.
7. noun. An injury caused by jamming.
8. noun. A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.
9. noun. deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems

   Synonyms: jamming

10. noun. preserve of crushed fruit
11. noun. a dense crowd of people

    Synonyms: crush, press

12. noun. informal terms for a difficult situation

    "he got into a terrible fix"

    "he made a muddle of his marriage"

    Synonyms: fix, hole, mess, muddle, pickle

13. verb. interfere with or prevent the reception of signals

    "Jam the Voice of America"

    "block the signals emitted by this station"

    Synonyms: block

14. verb. block passage through

    "obstruct the path"

    Synonyms: block, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude

15. verb. crush or bruise

    "jam a toe"

    Synonyms: crush

16. verb. crowd or pack to capacity

    "the theater was jampacked"

    Synonyms: cram, jampack, ram, wad

17. verb. get stuck and immobilized

    "the mechanism jammed"

18. verb. push down forcibly

    "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"

19. verb. press tightly together or cram

    "The crowd packed the auditorium"

    Synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng

Synonyms

jamming, crush, press, fix, hole, mess, muddle, pickle, block, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude, cram, jampack, ram, wad, mob, pack, pile, throng

Common word forms

jams, james, jammed, jammer, jamming

Words from these letters

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