CRAM


Meaning of CRAM in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be crammed/stuffed/packed etc full of sth

Ted’s workshop was crammed full of old engines.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

in

Beyond a flint wall was a small graveyard, the gravestones crammed in as though the corpses had been buried standing up.

A broken toaster and sev-eral ripped window shades were crammed in near a cracked welding gun and a rotting fence post.

On a big occasion 600 or so are crammed in .

■ NOUN

people

The amount of people crammed into offices out here, they should have built longer trains.

About 120 people were crammed on the truck as it headed to the city of Waterloo, 20 miles north of Freetown.

With 64,000 people crammed into every square mile, the most utterly bizarre happenings raise barely a shrug of the shoulders.

The 40,000 people crammed on to its terraces on May 9 had come to watch an execution.

■ VERB

try

The Prussian infantryman clapped his hands to his sword-whipped face, trying to cram his eyes back into their sockets.

But did anybody think they were going to try to cram all seven games into the first night?

Don't try to cram too much hair around each roller.

You can not blame him for trying to cram as much into 90 minutes as he possibly can.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

crammed with/crammed full of sth

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Everyone's cramming for their final exams.

I've procrastinated all semester, so I have a lot of cramming to do.

You'll really have to cram if you want to pass the test.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His Paris-based years were crammed with travel, museum visits, contacts with major figures in the arts and formative aesthetic experiences.

Other times they crammed into a vacant classroom.

Silver cups - golfing trophies - crammed the mantelpiece over a huge arched brick fireplace.

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