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
- 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
- ache
- bottle up
- box up
- charley horse
- check
- circumscribe
- circumscription
- clamp
- clasp
- clog
- confine
- confinement
- constipation
- constrain
- contraction
- convulsion
- coop up
- crick
- encumber
- fasten
- grip
- hamper
- hamstring
- handicap
- hindrance
- impede
- impediment
- inhibit
- kink
- limit
- object
- obstruct
- obstruction
- pain
- pang
- restrict
- restriction
- shackle
- shooting pain
- stiffness
- stitch
- stricture
- stymie
- thwart
- twinge
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