cram

Meanings

Verb

  • To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
  • To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
  • To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
  • To study hard; to swot.
  • To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
  • To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
  • To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.

Noun

  • The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
  • Information hastily memorized.
  • A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  • A lie; a falsehood.
  • 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.
  • A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.

Origin

  • From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian ("to cram; stuff"), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- ("to assemble; collect; gather"). Compare Old English crimman ("to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise"), Icelandic kremja ("to squeeze; crush; bruise").

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