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Cramp   /kræmp/   Listen
Cramp

noun
1.
A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.  Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm.
2.
A clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued.
3.
A strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together.  Synonym: cramp iron.
verb
(past & past part. cramped; pres. part. cramping)
1.
Secure with a cramp.
2.
Prevent the progress or free movement of.  Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle.  "The imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
3.
Affect with or as if with a cramp.
4.
Suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle.



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"Cramp" Quotes from Famous Books



... my body began to ache. I was, of course, rottenly trained, without a sound muscle in my body, and my legs threatened cramp, my heel grated against my boot and sent a stab to my stomach with every movement, my shoulders seemed to pull away from the stretcher as though they would separately rebel against my orders ... and my hand began again to slip. The Feldscher also began to feel the strain. Once he ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole
... moment's thought, "I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities ...
— Junior Classics, V6 • Various
... while those who rejected both had private prejudices as to snapping-turtles. The surgeon would have threatened intermittent fever, the first assistant rheumatism, and the second assistant congestive chills; non-swimmers would have predicted exhaustion, and swimmers cramp; and all this before coming within bullet-range of any hospitalities on the other shore. But I knew the folly of most alarms about reptiles and fishes; man's imagination peoples the water with ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... down as an axiom among poets that their ethical natures must develop spontaneously, or not at all. An attempt to force one's moral instincts will inevitably cramp and thwart one's art. It is unparalleled to find so great a poet as Coleridge plaintively asserting, "I have endeavored to feel what I ought to feel," [Footnote: Letter to the Reverend George Coleridge, ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins
... such an intense cramp seized him that he could not speak for some time. Then he began again, but in a ...
— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz


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