Definitions for cramped

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Spelling: [krampt]

IPA: /kræmpt/

Cramped is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in cramped (acdempr).

Definitions for cramped

noun

1. Often, cramps. a sudden, involuntary, spasmodic contraction of a muscle or group of muscles, especially of the extremities, sometimes with severe pain. a piercing pain in the abdomen. an intermittent, painful contraction of structures of a wall containing involuntary muscle, as in biliary colic or in the uterine contractions of menstruation or of labor.
2. writer's cramp.
3. cramp iron.
4. a portable frame or tool with a movable part that can be screwed up to hold things together; clamp.
5. anything that confines or restrains.
6. a cramped state or part.

Idioms

1. cramp one's style, Informal. to prevent one from showing one's best abilities.

adjective

1. affected with a cramp in a muscle or muscles.
2. confined or severely limited in space:
3. (of handwriting) with characters written small and crowded together. (of a style of writing) hard to understand; crabbed.
4. cramped2 .

verb (used with object)

1. to affect with or as if with a cramp.
2. to fasten or hold with a cramp.
3. to confine narrowly; restrict; restrain; hamper.
4. to turn (the front wheels of a motor vehicle) by means of the steering gear; steer.

Origin of cramped

First recorded in 1670-80; cramp¹ + -ed³

Examples for cramped

But while Paul may broaden his rhetoric, his outreach is cramped.

Sometimes I think this place is too narrer and cramped for me.

Pro-Sisi residents in the cramped, narrow streets are welcoming as long as only their perspective is being heard.

In her cramped kitchen she mashed pork fat with oatmeal and sculpted a loaf, which she fried up in patties.

After his own cramped quarters, Malone's room proved delightful.

The cords hurt his hands somewhat, and his legs were cramped.

We were exposing the people of Bettiah to the unprotected dimensions of their cramped lives.

Pity of a lad o' spirit like me to be cramped by such a hunx of a father.

They do not feel it cramped as we should; it is their custom.

Her sister, Magda, is quarantined after catching tuberculosis aboard their cramped vessel, and her aunt is nowhere to be found.