cram
Plural: crams
Verb
Verb Forms: crammed, cramming, crams
- To force a large amount into a small space.
- crowd or pack to capacity
- put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled
- "cram books into the suitcase"
- study intensively, as before an exam
- prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
- 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.
- To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
- To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
Noun
- The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
- Information hastily memorized.
- A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- A lie; a falsehood.
- 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.
- A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
Examples
- a cram from an examination
- A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
- He tried to CRAM all his high-value letters into one word, but it wasn’t valid in Scrabble.
- The boy crammed himself with cake
- to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
bone, bone up, chock up, drum, get up, grind away, jam, jampack, mug up, ram, swot, swot up, wad, alternative fact, anti-fact, bluff, bollocks, bullshit, canard, cap, chin, clanker, contradiction, cram, disinformation, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, fib, flam, goof, hoax, hummer, inveracity, inverity, jive, lie, mendacity, misinformation, mistruth, nonsense, nontruth, pork pie, porker, porky, prevarication, red flag, rubbish, story, swack-up, tall tale, terminological inexactitude, untruism, untruth, whopper, wisker, yanker, yed
Scrabble Score: 8
cram: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcram: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cram: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary