Thesaurus: cram

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1. v. t. 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.
2. v. t. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. i. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
5. v. i. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
6. n. The act of cramming.
7. n. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
8. n. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
9. v. crowd or pack to capacity
10. v. put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled
11. v. study intensively, as before an exam
12. v. prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam