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Definition of 'Cramp' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) cramp
Often, cramps.

2.  cramp
an involuntary, usu. painful contraction or spasm of a muscle or muscles.

3.  cramp
a painful contraction of involuntary muscle in the wall of the abdomen, uterus, or other organ.

4. (v.t.) cramp
to affect with or as if with a cramp.

5. (n.) cramp
a metal bar with bent ends for holding together building stones or for fastening them to a steel or concrete beam.

6.  cramp
a portable frame or tool with a movable part that can be screwed up to hold things together; clamp.

7.  cramp
anything that confines or restrains.

8.  cramp
a cramped state or part.

9. (v.t.) cramp
to fasten or hold with a cramp.

10.  cramp
to restrict or hamper.

11.  cramp
to steer (the wheels of a vehicle) in order to make a turn.


Definition of 'Cramp' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) spasm, cramp, muscle spasm
a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

2. (noun) cramp
a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued

3. (verb) cramp, cramp iron
a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together

4. (verb) cramp
secure with a cramp
"cramp the wood"

5. (verb) hamper, halter, cramp, strangle
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"

6. (verb) cramp
affect with or as if with a cramp

7. (verb) cramp
suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle


Definition of 'Cramp' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) cramp
a sudden pain in a muscle
I was swimming and got a cramp.


Definition of 'Cramp' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Cramp
that which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance

2. (noun) Cramp
a device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron

3. (noun) Cramp
a rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc

4. (noun) Cramp
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

5. (noun) Cramp
a spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg

6. (noun) Cramp
knotty; difficult

7. (verb) Cramp
to compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder

8. (verb) Cramp
to fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp

9. (verb) Cramp
to bind together; to unite

10. (verb) Cramp
to form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs

11. (verb) Cramp
to afflict with cramp


Translation of 'Cramp' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (a) painful stiffening of the muscles
The swimmer got cramp and drowned.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: kramp Arabic flag Arabic: تَشَنُّج Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: схващане
Brazilian flag Brazilian: câimbra Czech flag Czech: křeč German flag German: der Krampf
Danish flag Danish: krampe Greek flag Greek: κράμπα Spanish flag Spanish: calambre, rampa
Estonian flag Estonian: kramp Farsi flag Farsi: گرفتگی عضله Finnish flag Finnish: kramppi
French flag French: crampe Hebrew flag Hebrew: הִתכּווצוּת שְׁרִירִים Hindi flag Hindi: ऎंठन या मरोड़ की पीड़ा दे
Croatian flag Croatian: grč Hungarian flag Hungarian: görcs Indonesian flag Indonesian: kejang
Icelandic flag Icelandic: krampi Italian flag Italian: crampo Japanese flag Japanese: 筋肉のけいれん
Korean flag Korean: 경련 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: mėšlungis, spazmas Latvian flag Latvian: krampji
Malay flag Malay: kejang otot Dutch flag Dutch: kramp Norwegian flag Norwegian: krampe
Polish flag Polish: skurcz Persian flag Persian: گرفتگی عضله Pashto flag Pashto: عضلی درد
Portuguese flag Portuguese: câimbra Romanian flag Romanian: crampă Russian flag Russian: судорога
Slovak flag Slovak: kŕč Slovenian flag Slovenian: krč Serbian flag Serbian: grč
Swedish flag Swedish: kramp Thai flag Thai: ตะคริว Turkish flag Turkish: kramp
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 痛性痙攣 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: судома, корчі Urdu flag Urdu: اك‍ڑن
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: chuột rút Chinese flag Chinese: 痛性痉挛

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