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cram

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"Study hastily"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /kɹæm/Part of speech verbSorted acmrStarts with CEnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2R3A4M

Definitions

  1. prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

Word origin

From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).

Used in a sentence

  • to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people
  • But you still need to check in with the Arch Linux community now and then to make sure that none of their crazy shit is going to be crammed down your throat the next update.
  • Are we to blame Livingstone for Tube overcrowding? In part, yes, but as Sir John Eliot had observed in 1955, while Chairman of the London Transport Executive: 'They're not crammed in. They cram themselves in.'

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