CRAMS Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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plural of cram

as in swarms

a great number of persons or things massed together battling the rush-hour cram in the subway

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verb

present tense third-person singular of cram

as in squeezes

to fit (people or things) into a tight space tried to cram one more book into the backpack

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as in fills

to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained crammed his mouth with candy

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as in stuffs

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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diets
fasts

as in devours

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

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Recent Examples of crams

Verb

Director Allan Deberton crams much story and characterization in those opening frames. —

Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 24 Feb. 2026 Instead, the show crams everything into a space that can't hold it, culminating in this past third season that exploded with too much of practically everything. —

Matthew Razak, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026 Television has always relied on big, gasp-inducing moments, but Murphy crams them in even at the expense of narrative cohesion. —

Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026 The Nutribullet Ultra crams a 1200-watt motor into its rather slim casing; that’s double the wattage of the Nutribullet Pro blender that’s a step down. —

Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025 Moreover, the study’s methodology crams certain ideologies under one umbrella that otherwise would not fit neatly into a political classification. —

Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025 The Ferryman crams the Warren home with upright coffins filled with his former victims. —

Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for crams

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The book was completed months before Anthropic’s redlines generated new interest in autonomous-drone swarms and killer robots, but even then the writing was on the wall.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
The power of drone swarms on battlefields has been witnessed in multiple wars to date.

— Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026