| chockful | | |
| adj. | 1. chock-full, chockablock, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full | packed full to capacity.; "chowder chockablock with pieces of fish" |
| ~ full | containing as much or as many as is possible or normal.; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing" |
| jammed | | |
| adj. | 1. jam-packed, jammed, packed | filled to capacity.; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater" |
| ~ crowded | overfilled or compacted or concentrated.; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days" |
| compact | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. compact, powder compact | a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse. |
| ~ case | a portable container for carrying several objects.; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage" |
| n. (communication) | 2. compact, concordat, covenant | a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action. |
| ~ written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties. |
| ~ lateran treaty | the agreement signed in the Lateran Palace in 1929 by Italy and the Holy See which recognized the Vatican City as a sovereign and independent papal state. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. compact, compact car | a small and economical car. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| v. (contact) | 4. compact, pack | have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" |
| ~ wad, compact, bundle, pack | compress into a wad.; "wad paper into the box" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (contact) | 5. bundle, compact, pack, wad | compress into a wad.; "wad paper into the box" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| ~ compact, pack | have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" |
| ~ puddle | work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud. |
| v. (contact) | 6. compact, compress, pack together | make more compact by or as if by pressing.; "compress the data" |
| ~ press | exert pressure or force to or upon.; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot" |
| ~ wedge, squeeze, force | squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.; "I squeezed myself into the corner" |
| ~ tamp, tamp down, pack | press down tightly.; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso" |
| v. (contact) | 7. compact, compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze | squeeze or press together.; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" |
| ~ choke, strangle | constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing. |
| ~ prim | contract one's lips.; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food" |
| ~ tighten | become tight or tighter.; "The rope tightened" |
| ~ astringe | constrict or bind or draw together.; "Lemon juice astringes the tissue in the mouth" |
| ~ strangulate | constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air. |
| ~ convulse | contract involuntarily, as in a spasm.; "The muscles in her face convulsed" |
| ~ convulse | cause to contract.; "The spasm convulses her facial muscles" |
| ~ bear down, overbear | contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery. |
| ~ choke, gag, fret | be too tight; rub or press.; "This neckband is choking the cat" |
| ~ scrag, choke | wring the neck of.; "The man choked his opponent" |
| adj. | 8. compact | closely and firmly united or packed together.; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers" |
| ~ cloggy, clayey, heavy | (used of soil) compact and fine-grained.; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" |
| ~ close-packed | packed especially tightly. |
| ~ consolidated | forming a solid mass. |
| ~ impacted, wedged | wedged or packed in together.; "an impacted tooth" |
| ~ packed | pressed together or compressed.; "packed snow" |
| ~ serried | (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together.; "in serried ranks" |
| ~ tight | packed closely together.; "they stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight" |
| ~ concentrated | gathered together or made less diffuse.; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" |
| adj. | 9. compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset | having a short and solid form or stature.; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man" |
| ~ short, little | low in stature; not tall.; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" |
| adj. | 10. compact, compendious, succinct, summary | briefly giving the gist of something.; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject" |
| ~ concise | expressing much in few words.; "a concise explanation" |
| congest | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul | become or cause to become obstructed.; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" |
| ~ gum up | stick together as if with gum.; "the inside of the pipe has gummed up" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| ~ crap up | become obstructed or chocked up.; "The drains clogged up" |
| ~ choke up, lug, stuff, block | obstruct.; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" |
| ~ silt, silt up | become chocked with silt.; "The river silted up" |
| cram | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram, wad | crowd or pack to capacity.; "the theater was jampacked" |
| ~ stuff | cram into a cavity.; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets" |
| ~ cram | put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled.; "cram books into the suitcase" |
| v. (contact) | 2. cram | put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled.; "cram books into the suitcase" |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| ~ chock up, cram, jampack, wad, ram, jam | crowd or pack to capacity.; "the theater was jampacked" |
| ~ stuff | cram into a cavity.; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up | study intensively, as before an exam.; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" |
| ~ cram | prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam. |
| ~ hit the books, study | learn by reading books.; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now" |
| v. (change) | 4. cram | prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam. |
| ~ gear up, prepare, ready, set, fix, set up | make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill" |
| ~ bone, bone up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up, cram, drum, get up | study intensively, as before an exam.; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" |
| jam | | |
| n. (food) | 1. jam | preserve of crushed fruit. |
| ~ conserve, conserves, preserves, preserve | fruit preserved by cooking with sugar. |
| ~ strawberry jam, strawberry preserves | made with strawberries. |
| n. (state) | 2. fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle | informal terms for a difficult situation.; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" |
| ~ difficulty | a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome.; "grappling with financial difficulties" |
| ~ dog's breakfast, dog's dinner | a poor job; a mess.; "they made a real dog's breakfast of that job" |
| n. (group) | 3. crush, jam, press | a dense crowd of people. |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| ~ snarl-up, traffic jam | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move. |
| n. (act) | 4. electronic jamming, jam, jamming | deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems. |
| ~ ecm, electronic countermeasures | electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum. |
| ~ barrage jamming | electronic jamming over a wide range of frequencies simultaneously. |
| ~ selective jamming, spot jamming | electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency. |
| v. (motion) | 5. jam, mob, pack, pile, throng | press tightly together or cram.; "The crowd packed the auditorium" |
| ~ crowd together, crowd | to gather together in large numbers.; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" |
| v. (motion) | 6. jam | push down forcibly.; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" |
| ~ push, force | move with force,.; "He pushed the table into a corner" |
| v. (contact) | 7. crush, jam | crush or bruise.; "jam a toe" |
| ~ bruise, contuse | injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of.; "I bruised my knee" |
| v. (communication) | 8. block, jam | interfere with or prevent the reception of signals.; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" |
| ~ cut off, disrupt, interrupt, break up | make a break in.; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" |
| ~ barrage jam | jam an entire frequency spectrum.; "During the Cold War, the Soviets routinely barrage jammed to interfere with transmissions from the West" |
| ~ point jam | jam a narrow band of frequencies.; "We can counter point-jamming effectively" |
| ~ spot jam | jam a single frequency.; "This operator is spot-jammed" |
| ~ blanket jam | jam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications. |
| v. (contact) | 9. jam | get stuck and immobilized.; "the mechanism jammed" |
| ~ malfunction, misfunction | fail to function or function improperly.; "the coffee maker malfunctioned" |
| v. (contact) | 10. block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| ~ block off, blockade | obstruct access to. |
| ~ barricado, barricade | block off with barricades. |
| ~ barricade | prevent access to by barricading.; "The street where the President lives is always barricaded" |
| ~ asphyxiate, suffocate, stifle, choke | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of.; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" |
| ~ tie up | restrain from moving or operating normally.; "Traffic is tied up for miles around the bridge where the accident occurred" |
| ~ dam, dam up | obstruct with, or as if with, a dam.; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" |
| ~ block out, screen | prevent from entering.; "block out the strong sunlight" |
| ~ earth up, land up | block with earth, as after a landslide. |
| ~ barricade, block, block up, bar, block off, blockade, stop | render unsuitable for passage.; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" |
| ~ clog, clog up, congest, choke off, foul, back up, choke | become or cause to become obstructed.; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" |
| ~ hinder, impede | be a hindrance or obstacle to.; "She is impeding the progress of our project" |
| wad | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. wad | a small mass of soft material.; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter" |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| n. (quantity) | 2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" |
| ~ large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. |
| ~ deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ haymow | a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation. |
| n. (food) | 3. chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid, wad | a wad of something chewable as tobacco. |
| ~ bite, morsel, bit | a small amount of solid food; a mouthful.; "all they had left was a bit of bread" |
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