Antonyms for cramming

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kram

Phonetic Transcription : kræm

Definition of cramming

Origin : Old English crammian "press something into something else," from Proto-Germanic *kram-/*krem- (cf. Old High German krimman "to press, pinch," Old Norse kremja "to squeeze, pinch"), from PIE root *ger- "to gather" (cf. Sanskrit gramah "heap, troop," Old Church Slavonic gramota "heap," Latin gremium "bosom, lap"). Meaning "study intensely for an exam" originally was British student slang first recorded 1803. Related: Crammed; cramming.

verb fill to overflowing; compress
verb study intensely

Example sentences :

Do look at Broadbent cramming his spiritual pabulum into that girl's mouth.
Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair

Cramming has been brought throughout Germany to the level of a fine art.
Extract from : « The Curse of Education » by Harold E. Gorst

Carefully consider your experience from cramming your lessons.
Extract from : « The Mind and Its Education » by George Herbert Betts

On the night that Boggs dropped in on them, Jimmy and Pellams were cramming alone.
Extract from : « Stanford Stories » by Charles K. Field

I think it is low Thus to be stuffing and cramming your maw, Robbing the farmers!
Extract from : « Eyebright » by Susan Coolidge

The next minute we are all cramming our handkerchiefs to our faces, and making for the door.
Extract from : « Happy-Thought Hall » by F. C. Burnand

Have I told you that, since the cramming for this last horrid exam.
Extract from : « A Sheaf of Corn » by Mary E. Mann

Now, as the subject was not treated in the work, how could this “cramming” help him?
Extract from : « Pickwickian Studies » by Percy Fitzgerald

It began last summer, at the school where I was cramming for college work.
Extract from : « The Thing from the Lake » by Eleanor M. Ingram

Cramming his cap into his overcoat-pocket and coming to Farncombe.
Extract from : « The 'Mind the Paint' Girl » by Arthur Pinero

Synonyms for cramming

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