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Cram (krăm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (krămd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.]
1. 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”.
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Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak.
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He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.
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2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
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Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. Locke.
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Cram us with praise, and make us
As fat as tame things. Shak.
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3. 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”.
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Cram, v. i.
1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
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Gluttony . . . .
Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.
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2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]
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Cram, n.
1. The act of cramming.
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2. Information hastily memorized; as, “a cram from an examination”. [Colloq.]
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3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
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