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
To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study
put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase
If you are cramming for an examination, you are learning as much as possible in a short time just before you take the examination. She was cramming for her Economics exam + cramming cram·ming It would take two or three months of cramming to prepare for Vermont's bar exam
study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase
If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them. While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket I crammed my bag full of swimsuits and T-shirts and caught the sleeper down to Beziers She crammed her mouth with caviar. = stuff
{i} condition when things are packed together tightlyl situation when many people or things are crammed together; period of intense study
{f} compress, pack together tightly; stuff; fatten; gorge oneself with food, etc.; study intensively; prepare students intensively for university entrance exams
If people cram into a place or vehicle or cram a place or vehicle, so many of them enter it at one time that it is completely full. We crammed into my car and set off Friends and admirers crammed the chapel at the small Los Angeles cemetery where Monroe is buried. = pack
to cram
التركية النطق
tı kräm
النطق
/tə ˈkram/ /tə ˈkræm/
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[ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.