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Verb: jam (jammed,jamming)  jam
  1. Press tightly together or cram
    - throng, mob, pack, pile
     
  2. Push down forcibly
    "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
     
  3. Crush or bruise
    "jam a toe"
    - crush
     
  4. Interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
    "Jam the Voice of America"
    - block
     
  5. Get stuck and immobilized
    "the mechanism jammed"
     
  6. Crowd or pack to capacity
    - jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
     
  7. Block passage through
    - obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, block, close up
Noun: jam  jam
  1. Preserve of crushed fruit
     
  2. Informal term for a difficult situation
    - fix, hole, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
     
  3. A dense crowd of people
    - crush, press
     
  4. Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
    - jamming, electronic jamming

Sounds like: jamb

Derived forms: jammed, jamming, jams

Type of: break up, bruise, conserve, conserves, contuse, crowd, crowd together, cut off, difficulty, disrupt, ECM, electronic countermeasures, force, hinder, impede, interrupt, malfunction, misfunction, preserve, preserves, push, stuff

Encyclopedia: Jam