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Cram v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.]
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.
Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak.
He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. --Locke.
Cram us with praise, and make us
As fat as tame things. --Shak.
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.
cram
v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, 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: grind away,
drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up,
bone]
4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
[also: cramming, crammed]