Crammed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cram \Cram\ (kr[a^]m), v. t. [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.
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              Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak.
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              He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift.
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     2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
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              Children would be freer from disease if they were
              not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
                                                    --Locke.
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              Cram us with praise, and make us
              As fat as tame things.                --Shak.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crammed
       See {cram}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "crammed":
     SRO, allayed, awash, bloated, brimful, brimming, bristling,
     bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, choked, chuck-full, close,
     close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, cloyed, compact,
     compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed,
     congested, consolidated, cram-full, crammed full, crawling,
     crowded, dense, disgusted, distended, drenched, engorged, farci,
     fed-up, filled, filled to overflowing, firm, flush, full, full of,
     full to bursting, gluey, glutted, gorged, hard, heavy, hyperemic,
     impenetrable, impermeable, in spate, jaded, jam-packed, jammed,
     loaded, massive, nonporous, overblown, overburdened, overcharged,
     overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull,
     overgorged, overladen, overloaded, oversaturated, overstocked,
     overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed,
     packed like sardines, plenary, plethoric, populous, ready to burst,
     replete, round, running over, sated, satiated, satisfied,
     saturated, serried, sick of, slaked, soaked, solid,
     standing room only, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, supercharged,
     supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, teeming,
     thick, thick-growing, thickset, tired of, topful, viscid, viscose,
     viscous, with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of