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cram

CRAM, v.t.

1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.

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

Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers.

3. To thrust in by force; to crowd.

Fate has crammed us all into one lease.

CRAM, v.i. TO eat greedily or beyond satiety; to stuff.



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CRAM, v.t.

1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.

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

Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers.

3. To thrust in by force; to crowd.

Fate has crammed us all into one lease.

CRAM, v.i. TO eat greedily or beyond satiety; to stuff.


CRAM, v.i.

To eat greedily or beyond satiety; to muff. – Pope.


CRAM, v.t. [Sax. crammian; Sw. krama; coinciding in sense and probably in origin with ram.]

  1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.
  2. To fill with food beyond satiety; to stuff. Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers. Locke.
  3. To thrust in by force; to crowd. Fate has crammed us all into one lease. – Dryden.

Cram
  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 eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

    Gluttony . . . .
    Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
    Milton.

  3. The act of cramming.
  4. 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.

  5. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.

    [Colloq.]
  6. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.

    [Colloq.]
  7. 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.
  8. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
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Cram

CRAM, verb transitive

1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.

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

Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers.

3. To thrust in by force; to crowd.

Fate has crammed us all into one lease.

CRAM, verb intransitive TO eat greedily or beyond satiety; to stuff.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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