Find your perfect word!
Definition cramp
Etymology
From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe, cranpe (“cramp”), from Old Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-Germanic *kramp? (“cramp, clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *grem- (“to unite; lap, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to unite, collect, forgather”). Cognate with Dutch kramp (“cramp”), German Low German Kramp (“cramp”), German Krampe and Krampf (“cramp”), Swedish kramp (“cramp”), Icelandic krampa (“cramp”). See also Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), Ancient Greek ?????? (ageír?, “I gather, collect”), whence ????? (agorá), Latin grex.
Noun
cramp (countable and uncountable, plural cramps)
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
- That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- 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.
Verb
cramp (third-person singular simple present cramps, present participle cramping, simple past and past participle cramped)
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
- (transitive, figuratively) To prohibit movement or expression of.
- (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
- To form on a cramp.
Adjective
Results 435 Words with the letters CRAMP
12 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
11 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
10 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
9 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
8 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
7 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
6 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
5 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
4 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
3 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
2 letter words with the letters CRAMP ↑
You can also try words with the phrase CRAMP, words starting with the letters CRAMP, or words ending in the letters CRAMP.
Favorites Searches
Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,
Some random searches: Words with the letters JTPHJY, Words with the letters ZEQJ, Words with the letters FWXO, Words with the letters PTSJE,