Definitions for cramp

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IPA: /kræmp/

Cramp is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in cramp (acmpr).

Definitions for cramp

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. 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 cramp

1325-75; Middle English crampe Old French Germanic; cognate with Middle Dutch crampe, Old Saxon krampo, Old High German krampfo; derivative of adj. meaning narrow, constrained, bent; compare

Examples for cramp

I didn't care for music, piano playing gave me a cramp in my arms.

If Prince Harry is back on again with Chelsy Davy, he's not letting it cramp his style.

No human tongue can describe what I suffered with the cramp.

If the cramp attack the stomach or bowels, it is attended with considerable danger: medicine may relieve but cannot cure.

She felt a cramp around her root That crippled every outmost shoot.

They give me the cramp in my thumb, and kinks in my fingers.

Others get cramp, fever, and pains before they begin to recover.

And, without running any risk of writer's cramp, she might have signed it.

A crooked leg gives a fellow a cramp in the knee, after a while.

They always do, unless they are seized with the cramp and it holds them.