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cram

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of cram

a great number of persons or things massed together

  • battling the rush-hour cram in the subway
Synonyms of cram

army, bike [chiefly Scottish], crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, press, rout, scrum, swarm, throng
Words Related to cram

masses, millions, rabble, rabblement, riffraff

gaggle

heap, mountain, pile

jam, logjam

cram

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of cram

1 to fit (people or things) into a tight space

  • tried to cram one more book into the backpack
Synonyms of cram

crowd, crush, jam, ram, sandwich, shoehorn, squeeze, stuff, wedge
Words Related to cram

fill, heap, jam-pack, load, pack

2 to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained

  • crammed his mouth with candy
Synonyms of cram

brim, charge, fill, heap, jam, jam-pack, load, pack, stuff
Words Related to cram

drench, flood, glut, swamp

bloat, bulk

crowd, crush, mat, press, ram, shove, squash, squeeze

refill, refresh, reload, repack, replenish

overcharge, overfill, overflow, saturate

honeycomb, penetrate
Near Antonyms of cram

lighten

deplete, drain, eliminate, exhaust

bleed, draw (off)

clean, flush, purge, scour, sweep
Antonyms of cram

clear, empty, evacuate, vacate, void

3 to fill with food to capacity

  • one of those eating contests in which competitors attempt to cram themselves with as many hot dogs as they can in three minutes
Synonyms of cram

glut, gorge, sate, stuff, surfeit
Words Related to cram

gobble, gormandize, pig out

gulp, guzzle

cloy, fill

banquet, feast, regale
Near Antonyms of cram

diet, fast

4 to swallow or eat greedily

  • the thoughtless guest crammed a dinner that had taken hours to prepare
Synonyms of cram

bolt, devour, glut [archaic], gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp, ingurgitate, inhale, raven, scarf, scoff, slop, wolf
Words Related to cram

overeat, pig out, swill
Near Antonyms of cram

nibble, peck, pick

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