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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] 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. Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift. 2. 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. 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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