cramp
see also: Cramp
Pronunciation
Cramp
Proper noun
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see also: Cramp
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɹæmp/
cramp
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
- The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
- That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
- A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
- crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
cramp (cramps, present participle cramping; past and past participle cramped)
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
- 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
- The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
- 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
- (transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
- You're cramping my style.
- The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
- (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
- when the gout cramps my joints
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
- The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
- To form on a cramp.
- to cramp boot legs
- German: krampfen
- Italian: paralizzare, contrarre
- Russian: своди́ть
- Spanish: acalambrarse
- Italian: paralizzare, inibire, bloccare, atrofizzare
- Russian: стеснять
- Spanish: coartar
- Italian: limitare
- Russian: фикси́ровать
- Spanish: inmovilizar
cramp
Cramp
Proper noun
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