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- [kram]
- /kræm/
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- [kram]
- /kræm/
Definitions of cram word
- verb cram If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them. 3
- verb cram If people cram into a place or vehicle or cram a place or vehicle, so many of them enter it at one time that it is completely full. 3
- verb cram If you cram a hat on, you put it on, especially in a hurry. 3
- verb cram If you are cramming for an examination, you are learning as much as possible in a short time just before you take the examination. 3
- verb cram to force (people, material, etc) into (a room, container, etc) with more than it can hold; stuff 3
- verb cram to eat or cause to eat more than necessary 3
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Origin of cram
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English crammen, Old English crammian to stuff, akin to crimman to put in
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Parts of speech for Cram
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
cram popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for cram
verb cram
- load — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- wedge — a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
- shove — to move along by force from behind; push.
- crowd — A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
- ram — random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
Antonyms for cram
verb cram
- surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
- release — to lease again.
- diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
- fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
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