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# cram

«cram» in Mova's school dictionary: **to push too many things or people into a small space** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (cram, crams, crammed, cramming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cram is to push too many things or people into a small space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#m1)

2) To cram is to study a lot in a short time just before a test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#m2)

3) To cram food is to eat it very fast, stuffing your mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes full bags, cupboards and buses. In school it describes last-minute studying, which works worse than revising a little every day. Phrases: «cram into», «cram for a test», «crammed with», «crammed full».

### examples

- He crammed all his clothes into one small bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#x1)
- Twenty people crammed into the tiny lift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#x2)
- Don't cram for the test the night before; revise a bit each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#x3)
- The cupboard was crammed with old toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#x4)
- She crammed the whole sandwich into her mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#x5)
- We crammed into the car for the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#x6)
- The shelves were crammed full of books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#x7)
- Hansel bent down and filled his pocket with as many of them as he could cram in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/#x8)

### note

Double «m»: crammed, cramming. Past and adjective «crammed» means very full. Safety: cramming food into your mouth can make you choke. In a maths problem, «crammed into» tells that the space is overfull — more than fits comfortably.

### In the corpora

- [Spaced practice, small amounts over several days, works better than cramming in one night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cram» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cram/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.