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You can make 26 words from cramp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of cramp

cramp

Etymology

From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

cramp (countable and uncountable, plural cramps)

1. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
   • August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington

     the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.

2. That which confines or contracts.

   Synonyms: restraint, shackle, hindrance
3. A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
4. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

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Verb

cramp (third-person singular simple present cramps, present participle cramping, simple past and past participle cramped)

1. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
2. (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
   • 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)

     The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.

3. (transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
4. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

   You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
5. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
6. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
7. To form on a cramp.

Derived terms

• cramp someone's style

Translations

Adjective

cramp (comparative more cramp, superlative most cramp)

1. (archaic) cramped; narrow

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cramp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “cramp”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Adjective

cramp

1. intricate, complex

Derived terms

• neuchramp

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