jam

Nouns

• (n) preserve of crushed fruit
• (n) informal terms for a difficult situation
  • he got into a terrible fix
  • he made a muddle of his marriage
  fix, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hole,
• (n) a dense crowd of people crush, press,
• (n) deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems electronic jamming, jamming,

Verbs

• (v) press tightly together or cram
  • The crowd packed the auditorium
  mob, throng, pile, pack,
• (v) push down forcibly
  • The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor
• (v) crush or bruise
  • jam a toe
  crush,
• (v) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
  • Jam the Voice of America
  • block the signals emitted by this station
  block,
• (v) get stuck and immobilized
  • the mechanism jammed
• (v) crowd or pack to capacity
  • the theater was jampacked
  chock up, cram, jampack, wad, ram,
• (v) block passage through
  • obstruct the path
  obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, block,

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