cramp
/kɹæmp/ verb C2- (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- To affect with cramps or spasms.
- To prohibit movement or expression of. · You're cramping my style.
- To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp. · You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- To bind together; to unite.
- To form on a cramp. · to cramp boot legs
He/she/it cramps · Past cramped · Past participle cramped · -ing form cramping
Verb forms
- Base form
- cramp
- He/she/it
- cramps
- Past
- cramped
- Past participle
- cramped
- -ing form
- cramping
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Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
Suppose she grew so tired and cramped that she could hold on no longer!
She was really quite unstrung, for the reaction from her fright and cramped clinging was making itself felt.
“Well,” said he, “I will swim on until I am worn out, or the cramp seizes me, and then I shall sink;” and he struck out with the energy of despair.
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