Cram vs Devour - What's the difference?
cram | devour |
The act of cramming.
Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
To ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
To fill with food to ; to stuff.
To put through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
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To , and to satiety; to stuff.
To make crude or study.
To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
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*Bible, (w) i. 20
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
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As verbs the difference between cram and devour
is that cram is 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 while devour is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.As a noun cram
is the act of cramming.cram
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(en noun)Verb
(cramm)Derived terms
* cram schoolAnagrams
* *devour
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Verb
(en verb)- If ye refuseye shall be devoured with the sword.
Internal Combustion, passage=Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,