jam

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. crowd, press, crush; blockage, impasse; jelly, preserve; slang, predicament. See food, difficulty. —v. crowd, press, crush; wedge, shove, push, cram; block. See hindrance, impulse.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Preserves]

Syn. jelly, conserve, fruit butter, spread, marmalade, sweet, sugarplums, candied fruit; see also jelly 1 .

2. [*A troublesome situation]

Syn. dilemma, trouble, bind*, fix*; see difficulty 1 , predicament .

v.

1. [To force one's way]

Syn. jostle, squeeze, crowd, throng, wedge, press, elbow, thrust, pack; see also press 1 , push 1 .

2. [To pack full]

Syn. fill, block, cram, squeeze; see bar 1 , compress , pack 2 .

3. [To interfere with radio signals]

Syn. drown out, garble, scramble, muddle; see confuse .

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

trouble, scrape, bind, *hot water, *pickle, hole, predicament, mess, plight.

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v.

1. squeeze in cram, ram, pack, stuff, press, wedge, tamp, *squish, squash, overcrowd, *stuff to the gills.

2. clog plug, obstruct, congest, stick, *gum up the works, *bottleneck.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb To fill to excess by compressing or squeezing tightly: cram, crowd, load, mob, pack, stuff. Informal: jam-pack. See FULL, TIGHTEN. II noun 1. A cessation of normal activity, caused by an accident or strike, for example: gridlock, immobilization, stoppage, tie-up. See CONTINUE. 2. A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition: box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, plight1, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup, trouble. Informal: bind, pickle, spot. See EASY.