crammed; cramming
1
: to pack tight : jam
cram a suitcase with clothes
a novel crammed with surprises
3
: to thrust in or as if in a rough or forceful manner
crammed the letters into his pocket
4
: to prepare hastily for an examination
cram the students for the test
1
: to eat greedily or to satiety : stuff
2
: to study a subject intensively especially for an imminent examination
crammer
noun
1
: a compressed multitude or crowd : crush
2
: last-minute study especially for an examination
Examples of cram in a Sentence
Verb
He crammed the suitcase with his clothes.
Before the trip I crammed my head with information about Spain.
Noun
battling the rush-hour cram in the subway
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Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
That's because, in collaboration with Vapor Propulsion Labs (VPL) – the North American distributor for Bosch – the team had to come up with a unique way to cram the Performance Line SX motor into the frame.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 7 Mar. 2025
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Tennessee Titans summer reading cram session Big change at the top: The Titans fired coach Mike Vrabel in January and replaced him with Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, a first-time head coach with a QB-coaching background.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 19 July 2024
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Verb
The train car was crammed with people sitting on the lower and upper berths, squatting in the aisles, and crowding the vestibule leading to the toilets, and this might have been the reason that Ganesh Rajwar was sitting in the open doorway, his feet on the metal stairs.
—Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
That's because, in collaboration with Vapor Propulsion Labs (VPL) – the North American distributor for Bosch – the team had to come up with a unique way to cram the Performance Line SX motor into the frame.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
Historically, at the strictest cram schools, social interactions were carefully circumscribed.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Tennessee Titans summer reading cram session Big change at the top: The Titans fired coach Mike Vrabel in January and replaced him with Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, a first-time head coach with a QB-coaching background.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 19 July 2024
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“Cram.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cram. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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Ralph Adams 1863–1942 American architect and author
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