jammed

jammed

See also: jamm'ed

English

Adjective

jammed

1. Stuck.

   The window is jammed shut.

   How to treat a jammed finger or toe.

   The printer is still jammed. Make sure that all the jammed paper is removed.

   The ship was jammed between two rocks.

2. Overcrowded; congested.

   Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed.

   These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.

   A jammed Oktoberfest beer tent.

Translations

pertaining to something which is stuck

Finnish: jumissa (fi) German: eingeklemmt (de), festgeklemmt (de), eingequetscht (de) Italian: bloccato (it), inceppato (it)

overcrowded; congested

Danish: propfuld, smækfuld Dutch: overvol (nl), propvol (nl) Faroese: sprenfullur German: überfüllt (de), verstopft (de), proppenvoll (de) Icelandic: sneisafullur Italian: affollato (it), trafficato (it) ((about roads)) Norwegian: proppfull, stappfull Swedish: överfull (sv)

Verb

jammed

1. simple past tense and past participle of jam

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Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *jāmētēk.

Verb

jammed

1. die

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland