cram

About 0.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.

   to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people

2. verb To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

   The boy crammed himself with cake

3. verb To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.

   A pupil is crammed by his tutor.

4. verb To study hard; to swot.
5. verb To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
6. verb To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
7. verb To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
8. noun The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).

Similar words

fill up fill get up wad stuff jampack pack bone up swot mug up

Often followed by

the into and in a it for down them

Word family

Cram Donald James Cram Ralph Adams Cram crammed crammer crammers cramming crams