Word Definition

Cram

  1. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  2. 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.
  3. The act of cramming.
  4. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
  5. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
  6. 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.
  7. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
  8. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

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