jam
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(verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" |
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Synonyms: block |
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Related Words: break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt |
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(verb) crus or bruise; "jam a toe" |
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Synonyms: crush |
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Related Words: bruise, contuse |
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(verb) crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" |
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Synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, pack, ram, wad |
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Related Words: stuff |
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(verb) get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed" |
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Related Words: malfunction, misfunction |
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(verb) push forcibly, as of brakes: "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" |
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Related Words: force, push |
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(noun) preserve of crushed fruit |
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Related Words: conserve, conserves, preserve, preserves, strawberry jam, strawberry preserves |
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(noun) a dense crowd of people |
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Synonyms: crush, press |
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Related Words: crowd, snarl-up, traffic jam |
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(noun) deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems |
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Synonyms: electronic jamming, jamming |
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Related Words: ECM, barrage jamming, electronic countermeasures, selective jamming, spot jamming |
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(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" |
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Synonyms: fix, hole, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle |
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Related Words: difficulty |
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(verb) eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" |
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Synonyms: cram, fill, fill up, stuff |
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Related Words: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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(verb) block passage through; "obstruct the path" |
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Synonyms: block, close up, impede, obstruct, occlude |
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Related Words: back up, bar, barricade, barricado, block, block off, block out, block up, blockade, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, dam, dam up, earth up, foul, hinder, impede, land up, screen, suffocate |
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(verb) press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" |
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Synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng |
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Related Words: crowd, crowd together, draw together |
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