cramp

/kræmp/
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cramp

A carpenter uses a metal cramp to hold two pieces of wood together.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A painful, involuntary muscle contraction: A sudden, tight feeling in a muscle that can cause severe pain, often occurring in the legs or feet.
    • A metal clamp or fastening device: A strip of metal with ends bent at right angles, used to hold materials like masonry or wood together.

  2. Verb:

    • To suffer from or cause a painful muscle contraction: To experience or to affect someone with a sudden, painful tightening of a muscle.
    • To restrict or hamper: To prevent the free movement, progress, or development of something or someone.
    • To secure with a clamp: To fasten or hold something together using a cramp or similar device.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • I got a severe cramp in my calf while swimming.
    • The builder used an iron cramp to hold the stone blocks together.

  • Verb:

    • The intense exercise made my leg muscles cramp.
    • Strict regulations can cramp innovation in the industry.
    • He cramped the two pieces of wood before applying the glue.
Advanced Usage

  • "to cramp someone's style": To restrict someone's freedom of action or self-expression.

    • Having his parents visit for a month really cramped his style.

  • "writer's cramp": A painful spasm in the hand or arm from prolonged writing.

    • After taking notes for three hours, she suffered from writer's cramp.
Variants and Related Words

  • Cramped (adj): Feeling uncomfortably restricted or confined; lacking space.

    • The cramped apartment had very little room to move.

  • Cramp iron (n): Another term for a metal cramp used in construction.

Synonyms
  • Noun (muscle): Spasm, twinge, stitch.
  • Verb (restrict): Hamper, hinder, impede, constrain, restrict.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Cramp up: To experience a muscle cramp or to become tightly constricted.
    • My leg cramped up during the marathon.
Related Idioms
  • To cramp one's style: To inhibit someone's natural way of behaving or expressing themselves.
    • He felt his new supervisor was trying to cramp his style with all the new rules.
cramp

A carpenter uses a metal cramp to hold two pieces of wood together.

Noun
  1. a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
  2. a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
  3. a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
Verb
  1. suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
  2. affect with or as if with a cramp
  3. prevent the progress or free movement of
    • He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather
    • the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries
  4. secure with a cramp
    • cramp the wood

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