ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cramming

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Cramming is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of cram.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of cram.

More Meanings

  1. The act by which something is crammed, or stuffed full.
  2. An intensive course of hard study, as for an examination.

Example Sentences

And, what with innumerable numbers of stiff and stiffer and stiffest competitions and examinations and crammings and general papers bristling at all angles, […]
In some parts of the house were all the comforts of elbowings, shufflings, crammings and squeezings, and on the outside all the racket that was possible of screaming women, and wrangling coachmen […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crowding, constipation, farcement, squashing, stuffing, piling.

Related Dictionary Tools

Sources & Attribution

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.