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Meaning of cramming

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

cramming

verb

Definitions

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

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

  2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

    Example: The boy crammed himself with cake

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

    Example: A pupil is crammed by his tutor.

  4. To study hard; to swot.

noun

Definitions

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

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