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cram
/kɹæm/
verb 5noun 5name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, final
VERB + CRAM
am, call, crammed, dating, don't, go, goes, make
CRAM + NOUN
entrance, examination, fruit, room, school, teacher, themse
PREP.
from, in, in, into, on, with
ADV.
mainly, quickly
Definitions
verb
1
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
Are we to blame Livingstone for Tube overcrowding? In part, yes, but as Sir John Eliot had observed in 1955, while Chairman of the London Transport Executive: 'They're not crammed in. They cram themselves in.'
2
To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
The boy crammed himself with cake
3
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
To study hard; to swot.
5
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
noun
1
The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
But Billy Bunter was only the first in the field. As the news spread, there was a crowd, not to call it a cram, in No. 7 Study: […]
2
Information hastily memorized.
a cram from an examination
3
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
4
A lie; a falsehood.
It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do.
Shut up, and don't tell crams.
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.
name
1
A surname.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people
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Are we to blame Livingstone for Tube overcrowding? In part, yes, but as Sir John Eliot had observed in 1955, while Chairman of the London Transport Executive: 'They're not crammed in. They cram themse
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The storm has passed when I arrive at Southampton Central, but more fun is to come. The station platforms and waiting rooms are crammed with people, many toting enormous amounts of baggage as they hav
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But Billy Bunter was only the first in the field. As the news spread, there was a crowd, not to call it a cram, in No. 7 Study: […]
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a cram from an examination
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It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do.
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