cram, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

cram (crams 3rd person present) (cramming present participle) (crammed past tense & past participle )

1  verb If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them. (=stuff)
While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket...  V n prep/adv
I crammed my bag full of swimsuits and T-shirts and caught the sleeper down to Beziers...  V n full of n
She crammed her mouth with caviar.  V n with n

2  verb If people cram into a place or vehicle or cram a place or vehicle, so many of them enter it at one time that it is completely full. (=pack)
We crammed into my car and set off...  V prep
Friends and admirers crammed the chapel at the small Los Angeles cemetery where Monroe is buried.  V n

3  verb If you are cramming for an examination, you are learning as much as possible in a short time just before you take the examination.
She was cramming for her Economics exam...  V for n
♦ cramming  n-uncount
It would take two or three months of cramming to prepare for Vermont's bar exam.