Cramming

3 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]:

  cramming
       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}]