Antonyms for cramp

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : kramp

Phonetic Transcription : kræmp

Definition of cramp

Origin : "muscle contraction," late 14c., from Old French crampe, from a Frankish or other Germanic word (cf. Old High German krapmhe "cramp, spasm," related to kramph "bent, crooked"), from a Proto-Germanic root forming many words for "bent, crooked," including, via French, crampon. Writer's cramp is first attested 1842 as the name of a physical affliction of the hand, in reference to translations of German medical papers (Stromeyer); also known as scrivener's palsy.

noun muscle spasm
verb hinder, restrain

Example sentences :

She felt a cramp around her root That crippled every outmost shoot.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various

I didn't care for music, piano playing gave me a cramp in my arms.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

If the cramp attack the stomach or bowels, it is attended with considerable danger: medicine may relieve but cannot cure.
Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

They always do, unless they are seized with the cramp and it holds them.
Extract from : « Victor's Triumph » by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

No human tongue can describe what I suffered with the cramp.
Extract from : « Treatise on the Diseases of Women » by Lydia E. Pinkham

They give me the cramp in my thumb, and kinks in my fingers.
Extract from : « The Two Mittens and the Little Play Mittens » by Frances Elizabeth Barrow

And, without running any risk of writer's cramp, she might have signed it.
Extract from : « The Girl on the Boat » by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

A crooked leg gives a fellow a cramp in the knee, after a while.
Extract from : « Pluck on the Long Trail » by Edwin L. Sabin

Others get cramp, fever, and pains before they begin to recover.
Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin

I have done it into cramp English, line for line, and rhyme for rhyme, to try the possibility.
Extract from : « The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 » by Lord Byron

Synonyms for cramp

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