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cram | American Dictionary

cram
verb
us/kræm/-mm-

cramverb (FORCE)

[ Talways+ adv/prep ]
to force something into a small space, or to fill an area with people:
Six children were crammed into the back of the car.

cramverb (LEARN QUICKLY)

[ I ]
to try to learn a lot very quickly before an exam:
She’s cramming for her history exam.

Examples of cram

cram
In later years, two and even three resident doctors were crammed into rooms originally intended for just one person.
Too many people are crammed into each vehicle resulting in over-extended suspension and braking systems and speeding.
The early modern mind was a crowded place, crammed with separate but not always wholly distinct faculties that together orchestrated the life of mind and heart.
A contemporary estimate places the number of bars catering to foreign sailors at about thirty-six, most of them crammed along the creek that ran through the narrow foreign settlement.
There had been a deliberate contrast with the often chaotic nature of the city churchyard, where bodies were crammed rather than interred, and which lacked respect for familial affection.
Cramming them all into the same package would result in poor legislation and breach the principle of subsidiarity.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I was brought up in the post-war cramming phase.
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