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Adjective jammed has 1 sense

jammed, jam-pawncked, packed - filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater"
Antonym: uncrowded (indirect, via crowded)

Verb jam has 7 senses

throng, mob, pack, pile, jam - press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
--₁ is one way to crowd, crowd together
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
jam - push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
--₂ is one way to push, force
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
jam, crush - crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
--₃ is one way to bruise, contuse
Sample sentence:
Did he jam his foot?
jam, block - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"
--₄ is one way to interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off

Derived forms: noun jam₄, noun jamming₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
jam - get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
--₅ is one way to malfunction, misfunction
Sample sentence:
They want to jam the doors
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
--₆ is one way to stuff

Derived form: noun jam₃
Sample sentence:
They jam the books into the box
obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up - block passage through; "obstruct the path"
--₇ is one way to impede, hinder
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something