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jammed

adjective

1 jammed

Extremely crowed or filled to capacity:
— A suitcase jammed with dirty clothes.

synonyms: jam-packed, packed.

Roget 150: unchangeable, immutable; unaltered, unalterable; not to be changed, constant; permanent etc. 141; invariable, undeviating; stable, durable; perennial ... show more


Moby thesaurus: aground, alive with, anchored, arrested, back, backward, behindhand, belated, bloated, blocked, bonded, bound, brimful, brimming, bristling, bursting, caught, cemented, chained, chock-full ... show more.

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jam

noun

1 jam

Preserve of crushed fruit.

Roget 225: clothing, investment; covering etc. 223; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; ... show more

Roget 354: pulpiness etc. adj.; pulp, taste, dough, curd, pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume.    mush, ... show more

Roget 396: sweetness, dulcitude.    sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, ... show more

Polish: dżem

2 jam

Informal terms for a difficult situation.

synonyms: fix, hole, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle.

Dutch: opstopping, repareren, jam, gaatje

3 jam

A dense crowd of people.

synonyms: crush, press.

Polish: stonka

4 jam

Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems.

synonyms: electronic jamming, jamming.

verb

1 jam

Press tightly together or cram.

synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng.

Roget 43: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together [Fr.], tack together, fix together, ... show more

Dutch: omstuwen

2 jam

Push down forcibly.

3 jam

Crush or bruise:
— Jam a toe.

synonym: crush.

4 jam

Interfere with or prevent the reception of signals:
— Jam the Voice of America.

synonym: block.

5 jam

Get stuck and immobilized.

Dutch: blokkeren

6 jam

Crowd or pack to capacity:
— The theater was jampacked.

synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, ram, wad.

Dutch: proppen

7 jam

Block passage through.

synonyms: block, close up, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude.

Dutch: dichtstoppen, afsluiten, stremmen


Moby thesaurus: Great Mogul, Jell-O, Mogul, a mass of, a world of, abound with, afterthought, albumen, arch dam, army, articulate, assault, backstop, baffle, bafflement, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barricade ... show more.

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