From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cram \Cram\ (kr[a^]m), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Crammed} (kr[a^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cramming}.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. {Cramp}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
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}]
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