Synonyms for cramming
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kram |
| Phonetic Transcription : kræm |
Top 10 synonyms for cramming Other synonyms for the word cramming
- burn midnight oil
- chock
- choke
- compact
- crush
- devour
- drive
- force
- gobble
- gorge
- guzzle
- heap
- heavy booking
- hit the books
- ingurgitate
- jam
- jam-pack
- megabook
- mug up
- overeat
- overfill
- pack 'em in
- pack in
- pack it in
- pack like sardines
- press
- read
- review
- revise
- sardine
- satiate
- slop
- slosh
- squash
- stive
- tamp
- thrust
- wolf
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for cramming
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