Word Meanings - CRAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung 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.

Additional info about word: CRAM

1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRAM)

• Glut Gorge
• fill
• stuff
• cram
• satiate
• cloy
• surfeit

Related words: (words related to CRAM)

• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• GORGET
  A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer , a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. (more info) 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of
• STUFFING
  Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
• SURFEIT-WATER
  Water for the cure of surfeits. Locke.
• SURFEIT
  arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See 1. Excess in eating and drinking. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick
• SURFEITER
  One who surfeits. Shak.
• STUFFINESS
  The quality of being stuffy.
• STUFFER
  One who, or that which, stuffs.
• GORGELET
  A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
• GORGE
  A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt. (more info) abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser.
• STUFFY
  1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. 3. Ill-ventilated; close.
• STUFF
  A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See
• SATIATE
  Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of. "Satiate of applause." Pope.
• GORGERIN
  In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.
• GORGED
  Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck. 3. Glutted; fed to the full. (more info) 1. Having a gorge or throat.
• REGORGE
  1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. 2. To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.
• COUPE-GORGE
  Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.
• DISGORGEMENT
  The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.
• ENGORGE
  Etym: 1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag. 2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• DEMIGORGE
  Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
• INGORGE
  See MILTON
• ENGORGED
  Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested. (more info) 1. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
• UNSATIATE
  Insatiate. Dr. H. More.
• ENGORGEMENT
  An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn. (more info) 1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
• DYESTUFF
  A material used for dyeing.
• INSATIATE
  Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook.