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jam

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of jam

1 a crowded mass (as of cars) that impedes or blocks movement
  • thousands of cars trying to leave the stadium's parking lot at the same time are sure to create a jam
Synonyms of jam

backup, bottleneck, jam-up, logjam, snarl, tailback [British], tie-up
Words Related to jam

tangle

gridlock, lock

congestion, traffic

crawl, delay, slowdown, stoppage
2 a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
  • the heavy rain puts us in a real jam: all of the preparations are for a garden wedding
Synonyms of jam

bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp
Words Related to jam

difficulty, node

hot water, soup

pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble

deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill

clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait
Phrases Synonymous with jam

kettle of fish

jam

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of jam

1 to fit (people or things) into a tight space
  • jammed his clothes into the already bulging hamper
Synonyms of jam

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

fill, heap, jam-pack, load, pack
2 to prevent passage through by filling with something
  • firefighters found the nightclubʼs doorways jammed with trapped patrons
Synonyms of jam

block, choke, clog, clot, congest, dam, gum (up), obstruct, occlude, plug (up), stop (up), stuff
Words Related to jam

bung, cork, spile, stopper, stopple

fill, gridlock, pack

fur, silt

flood, glut, inundate, overwhelm, swamp
Near Antonyms of jam

excavate, hollow (out), scoop (out)

empty, lighten
Antonyms of jam

clear, free, open (up), unblock, unclog, unplug, unstop
3 to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained
  • the inn will jam a guestʼs picnic basket with an array of tempting foods
Synonyms of jam

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

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 jam

lighten

deplete, drain, eliminate, exhaust

bleed, draw (off)

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

clear, empty, evacuate, vacate, void
4 to force oneʼs way
  • several more people jammed into the bus even though there was hardly room to stand
Synonyms of jam

bore, bull, bulldoze, crash, elbow, jostle, muscle, press, push, shoulder, squeeze
Words Related to jam

ram, shove, thrust

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