Jammed
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jam \Jam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jammed} (j[a^]md); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Jamming}.] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between
jambs, or more likely from the same source as champ See
{Champ}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to
squeeze; to wedge in; to cram; as, rock fans jammed the
theater for the concert.
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The ship . . . jammed in between two rocks. --De
Foe.
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2. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a
door. [Colloq.]
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3. (Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half
her upper sails are laid aback. --W. C. Russell.
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4. To block or obstruct by packing too much (people or
objects) into; as, shoppers jammed the aisles during the
fire sale.
[PJC]
5. (Radio) To interfere with (a radio signal) by sending
other signals of the same or nearby frequency; as, the
Soviets jammed Radio Free Europe broadcasts for years
during the cold war.
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6. To cause to become nonfunctional by putting something in
that blocks the movement of a part or parts; as, he jammed
the drawer by putting in too many loose papers; he jammed
the lock by trying to pick it.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "jammed":
aground, alive with, anchored, arrested, back, backward,
behindhand, belated, bloated, blocked, bonded, bound, brimful,
brimming, bristling, bursting, caught, cemented, chained,
chock-full, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, close,
close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted,
compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested,
consolidated, constipated, costive, crammed, crammed full,
crawling, crowded, crowding, delayed, delayed-action, dense,
detained, distended, drenched, fast, fastened,
filled to overflowing, firm, fixed, foul, fouled, full, glued,
gluey, glutted, gorged, grounded, hard, heavy, held, held up,
high and dry, hung up, hyperemic, impacted, impenetrable,
impermeable, in a bind, in abeyance, in profusion, in spate,
inextricable, infarcted, jam-packed, late, latish, lavish, massive,
moored, moratory, never on time, nonporous, obstipated, obstructed,
overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overdue, overfed,
overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen,
overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted,
packed, plethoric, plugged, plugged up, populous, prodigal,
profuse, proliferating, prolific, ready to burst, retarded, rife,
running over, satiated, saturated, secure, serried, set, slow,
soaked, solid, stopped, stopped up, stranded, stuck, stuck fast,
studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant,
supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming,
swollen, taped, tardy, teeming, tethered, thick, thick as hail,
thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged,
thronging, tied, tight, transfixed, unpunctual, unready, untimely,
viscid, viscose, viscous, wedged
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