cram

Meaning

Verb

1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
4. To study hard; to swot.
5. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
6. (slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
7. (slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.

Noun

1. The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
2. Information hastily memorized.
3. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
4. (slang) A lie; a falsehood.
5. A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
6. A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.

Synonyms

stuff

jam

crowd

ram

🐏

fill

squeeze

pack

mug up

grind away

compress

bone up

swot up

get up

bone

🦴

drum

🥁

stow

wad

fill up

swot

press

thrust

gobble

push

bolt

clutter

study

jampack

learn

ea

tamp

throng

line

crush

overcrowd

devour

glut oneself

pack in

chock up

pestle

pig out

plunge

powderize

pulp

read

📖

sink

stab

stick

supercharge

surcharge

surfeit

swallow

learn by rote

tuck

tutor

wolf down

feed up

press in

read up

stuff in

stuff up

fill full

jab into

fill to satiety with food

batten

hit the books

beetle

🪲

bray

bruise

bury

charge

chock

clap

👏

clog

coach

compact

consume

cross over

crumple

dig

dig into

dip

dose

dough

drive in

drive into

eat up

engorge

fatten

feed

glut

gorge

gulp

haft

immerse

ingest

learn by heart

memorize

overfeed

overfill

overstuff

pad

paste

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹæm/

Etymology

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”).