cram
(verb) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone
(verb) study intensively, as before an exam; “I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam”
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
(verb) crowd or pack to capacity; “the theater was jampacked”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
crammed
simple past tense and past participle of cram
Source: Wiktionary
Cram (krm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crammed (krmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramming.] Etym: [AS. crammian to cram; akin to Icel. kremia to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf. Cramp.]
1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrustung one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. Locke. Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. Shak.
3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
Cram, v. i.
1. To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Cr, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.
2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]
Cram, n.
1. The act of cramming.
2. Innformation hastily memorized; as. a cram from an examination. [Colloq.]
3. (Weaving)
Definition: A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 May 2025
(adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; “he had a dazed expression on his face”; “lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow”; “was stupid from fatigue”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.