Word Finder - cramming

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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.

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to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people

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To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

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The boy crammed himself with cake

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To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.

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A pupil is crammed by his tutor.

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To study hard; to swot.

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To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.

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(British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.

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(British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.

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The act by which something is crammed, or stuffed full.

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An intensive course of hard study, as for an examination.

Adrienne screamed, cramming her foot into the floor as if she, too, had a break pedal.

Giddon stood, cramming his hands into the pockets of his jeans as he frowned down at Lisa.

The royal pupils spent their lesson hours, as Nicholas afterwards confessed, " partly in dreaming, partly in drawing all sorts of nonsense," in the end " cramming " just enough to scrape through their examinations without discredit.

Adding memory to newer machines is a challenge, mainly because newer machines are much more compact than older models, cramming more stuff in under the hood.

If you are prone to overworking or cramming for a test, be sure to schedule chunks of your day to check out and just relax.

Students who spend long nights cramming and not getting enough sleep may absorb enough knowledge to pass the test, but rarely store the bulk of the acquired knowledge in long term memory.

The shuttle envelops your computer entirely, so whether you're cramming your Dell into a book-filled backpack, you can trust that your laptop isn't cracking during a bumpy ride.

The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper.