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verb

past tense of cram
1
as in stuffed
to fit (people or things) into a tight space tried to cram one more book into the backpack

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as in gorged
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

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4
as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily the thoughtless guest crammed a dinner that had taken hours to prepare

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Recent Examples of crammed
Adjective
But away from the din at the crammed Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, a quieter labor-management battle is unfolding over who controls the sport’s money and how much should go to players. — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The Gulf’s conference season is usually packed into the cooler months, and the last quarter of 2026 is even more crammed because events in the spring were postponed due to the war. — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026 He wasn’t charged until two years after the homicide, as police struggled to identify who shot the victim in a crammed Tiny Home community hundreds of people were known to frequent. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026 What comes next is another slate of crammed club matches for all these players, and enough friendlies to keep the Spanish federation profitable. — Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026 Despite the crammed screenplay, Kara going to a red-sun planet to feel human and forget about everything is the most human thing ever. — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 In the era of shrinking airline seats and oversold flights, eking out even an extra inch of space in an ultra-crammed economy cabin can feel like a major win. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026 As one reporter predicted three, hearts sank in the crammed quarters. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026 When your floor space is far from generous, implementing small bedroom storage ideas is the difference between waking up in crammed quarters and having breathing room. — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 Jan. 2026
Verb
Trump crammed the Oval Office with gold flourishes, demolished the East Wing to build a sprawling ballroom and converted the Rose Garden into a patio space reminiscent of his Mar-a-Lago estate. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026 The rambunctious teenagers crammed into a lecture hall suddenly went quiet when a woman old enough to be their great-grandmother, and smaller in stature than many of them, approached the podium. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026 While today’s cinema listings are crammed with sequels and remakes, with the watching experience couched in discourse and then discourse about the discourse, the best ’90s films were for the most part true originals. — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026 This 1478 piece set is essentially two dioramas crammed into a single display piece. — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Yet Abrams still won’t kvetch about being crammed into a tiny whale-stomach set with a camera crew, while a half-dozen crew members surrounding the practical gut, wielding a gimbal, tossed him around like a wet rag doll. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 In 2013, Rana Plaza, a nine-story building crammed with garment factories outside the capital Dhaka, collapsed killing 1,100 people. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 The hotel is in a complex crammed with drinking and dining joints, like the Penthouse Bar & Grill on the 36th floor that offers panoramic views of the Thai capital. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026 Multiple artists crammed into a food truck-sized trailer serve a revolving door of clients throughout the four-day festival. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crammed
Adjective
  • Taylor received the medication in four pre-filled syringes, but wanted a lower dose.
    — Kara McGrath, Allure, 15 Sep. 2026
  • New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have introduced or passed legislation penalizing the practice and requiring employers to disclose hiring timelines or remove filled postings, while Texas has opened its own investigation into a major job board.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • One resourceful guest made do with a powdered barrister’s wig, perhaps left over from a previous Halloween costume, while others stuffed balloons of varying sizes down their t-shirts.
    — Simone Cook, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Whether they’re stuffed with straw or not, there’s a lot of history propping them up.
    — Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The 76ers are more likely to treat their opponents like a speed bag, sending blow after blow with a deep roster packed with past, current and future All-Stars.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Older children have the Palace Arcade next door, a separate hangout packed with games consoles and arcade machines.
    — Fergus Scholes, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • America’s Poison Centers’s national helpline receives more than 60,000 calls about possible vitamin poisoning every year, mostly from parents alarmed after their children have accidentally gorged on the chewy sweets.
    — Cat Rainsford, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
  • And while fans have been sated by the footballing feast, FIFA and its member associations have gorged on the tournament’s fruits.
    — Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Here are the best of the hundreds of novels King fans have devoured for decades.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 21 Oct. 2026
  • If the demons find out about her power, she will be devoured.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Hugo Boss came under more scrutiny in June, when a factory worker at Arctic Textile Mills in Faisalabad, Pakistan, lost an arm while clearing jammed machinery.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • When those signals are blocked, disrupted or deliberately jammed, vehicles may need other methods to maintain reliable navigation.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Apple has already implemented a series of price hikes on some of its hardware offerings due to rising memory costs, but margins can still be squeezed if the full increase wasn't passed through.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026
  • But in Israel at least, creatives have been stymied in recent years by a plethora of measures that have left them squeezed between censorship at home and international boycotts.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Scentronic also needs a matching fragrance loaded in advance for every smell it is expected to produce.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Meanwhile, officers with the campus and local police department, armed with a search warrant tied to hazing allegations, stoically toted out bags and cases of evidence and loaded it into police cars.
    — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026

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“Crammed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crammed. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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