cram
Significado (inglés)
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- To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
- To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
- To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
- To study hard; to swot.
- To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
- (slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
- (slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
Sinónimos
grind away
swot up
glut oneself
chock up
learn by rote
press in
stuff in
fill full
jab into
fill to satiety with food
drive into
learn by heart
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/kɹæm/
Etimoloxía (inglés)
From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).
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