Crossword clues for crammed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cram \Cram\ (kr[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (kr[a^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.]
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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.
Their storehouses crammed with grain.
--Shak.He will cram his brass down our throats.
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To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
--Locke.Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things.
--Shak. 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: cram)
WordNet
See cram
v. crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, wad]
put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"
study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]
prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
Usage examples of "crammed".
In this world of shrinking forests, the surviving animals had already crammed themselves into all the remaining islands of the old vegetation.
He dumped out the goodies on his bed and crammed some banana into his mouth.
With his agile hands he sought out the scraps of kernel the ailu had dropped, and crammed them into his mouth without shame.
Its mouth chewed slowly, crammed full of the fat deciduous leaves that were its principal diet.
He ran his hands through the water, letting the slime cling to his palms, and crammed the slippery harvest into his mouth.
After the comet, around the world, the land mammals had at first remained small, crammed into the dense forests—but some birds had grown large, and flightless monsters like this had briefly contested the role of top predator.
Her tongue squeezed past her jaws, as if her mouth were crammed with a great lump of dry dung.
To Jo'on the land was as crammed with vivid detail as if it had been painted over with signposts and arrows—even though he had walked this way only once before in his life.
But their heads were crammed full of specific knowledge, about the land, the seasons, the plants, the behavior of animals, acquired over a lifetime and distilled from the experience of generations.
With ten thousand people crammed within its walls, it was one of Earth's first cities.
Its thick wall was made of twigs and dead leaves, crudely crammed together.
Thank all gods we close at three, she thought, and wondered anxiously through her grinding headache how they were going to close the doors with so many irritable people crammed in front of the grilles, pressed forward by those outside.
Then she was standing in front of the poultry stall with its layers of barely alive, scrawny chickens crammed helplessly into cages, their legs tied.
Smyth pulled one open to find a scruffy bedroom, the next revealed a messy toilet and bathroom, a third another bedroom crammed with unmade bunks for four.
He gave her one and sat back in his chair again, his mind amok, one moment blank, the next crammed with happiness, instantly to be agitated and hurting with all the hope and fear, the questions, answers, plans and counterplans.