Cram

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

(2): (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.

(3): (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.

(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.

King James Dictionary [2]

Cram,

1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another to stuff to crowd to fill to superfluity as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag to cram a room with people to cram victuals down the throat. 2. To fill with food beyond satiety to stuff.

Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers.

3. To thrust in by force to crowd.

Fate has crammed us all into one lease.

Cram, To eat greedily or beyond satiety to stuff.

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