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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)

  1. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
  2. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
  3. A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
  4. 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)

  1. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
  2. (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To prohibit movement or expression of.
  4. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
  5. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
  6. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
  7. To form on a cramp.

Adjective

cramp (comparative more cramp, superlative most cramp)

  1. (archaic) cramped; narrow

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CAMPER 15
CRAMPS 15
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CAMP 13
CARP 10
CRAM 10
CRAP 10
MARC 10
PRAM 10
RAMP 10
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AMP 9
ARC 6
ARM 6
CAM 9
CAP 9
CAR 6
MAC 9
MAP 9
MAR 6
PAC 9
PAM 9
PAR 6
RAM 6
RAP 6
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AM 5
AR 2
MA 5
PA 5

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