cram

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff.
2. v. To fill too tightly.
3. v. To gorge with food.
4. v. To eat quickly and greedily.
5. v. Informal To prepare (students) hastily for an impending examination.
6. v. To gorge oneself with food.
7. v. Informal To study hastily for an impending examination: was up all night cramming for the history midterm.
8. n. A group that has been crammed together; a crush.
9. n. Informal Hasty study for an imminent examination.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To press or drive, particularly thrust (one thing), into another forcibly; stuff; crowd: as, to cram things into a basket or bag.
2. To fill with more than can be properly, conveniently, or comfortably contained; fill to repletion; overcrowd: as, to cram a room with people.
3. To fill with food beyond what is necessary, or to satiety; stuff.
4. To endeavor to qualify (a pupil or one's self) for an examination, or other special purpose, in a comparatively short time, by storing the memory with information, not so much with a view to real learning as to passing the examination; coach.
5. To tell lies to; fill up with false stories.
6. To eat greedily or to satiety; stuff one's self.
7. To store the memory hastily with facts, for the purpose of passing an examination or for some other immediate use; in general, to acquire knowledge hurriedly by a forced process, without assimilating it: as, to cram for a civil-service examination; to cram for a lecture.
8. n. In weaving, a warp having more than two threads in each dent or split of the reed.
9. n. The act or the result of cramming the memory; information acquired hurriedly and not assimilated.
10. n. A lie.
11. n. A densely packed gathering or crowd; a crush; a ‘jam.’

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of cramming.
2. n. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
3. n. A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
4. v. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting 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.
5. v. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
6. v. 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.
7. v. Study hard, swot.
8. v. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
9. v. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity.
2. v. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
3. v. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
4. v. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
5. v. colloq. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
6. n. The act of cramming.
7. n. colloq. Information hastily memorized.
8. n. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
2. v. put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled
3. v. crowd or pack to capacity
4. v. study intensively, as before an exam