Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cram \Cram\ (kr[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crammed} (kr[a^]md);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Cramming}.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to
Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf.
{Cramp}.]
1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in
thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to
fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket;
to cram a room with people.
Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak.
He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Children would be freer from disease if they were
not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
--Locke.
Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame
things. --Shak.
3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing
or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a
pupil is crammed by his tutor.
Source : WordNet®
cramming
See {cram}
cram
v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
{jam}, {jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {wad}]
2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely
filled; "cram books into the suitcase"
3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on
my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: {grind away},
{drum}, {bone up}, {swot}, {get up}, {mug up}, {swot up},
{bone}]
4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
[also: {cramming}, {crammed}]