cram

Definitions


[kram], (Verb)

Definitions:
- completely fill (a place or container) to the point of overflowing
(e.g: the ashtray by the bed was crammed with cigarette butts)

- study intensively over a short period of time just before an examination
(e.g: lectures were called off so students could cram for the semester finals)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English crammian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krammen ‘to cramp or clamp’




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