cram vs memorize

cram

verb
  • To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination. 

  • To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. 

  • To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity. 

  • To study hard; to swot. 

  • To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself. 

noun
  • A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. 

  • Information hastily memorized. 

  • A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information. 

  • The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). 

  • A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue. 

memorize

verb
  • To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory. 

How often have the words cram and memorize occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )