cramped
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɹæmpt/
- Simple past tense and past participle of cramp
cramped
- Uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0147 ↗:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- Overcrowded or congested.
- Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
- Illegible.
- French: surpeuplé, serré, bondé, surchargé
- German: beengt
- Portuguese: abarrotado
- Spanish: abarrotado
- French: contracté
- German: verkrampft
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