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English noun: cramp | |||
| 1. | cramp (state) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | ||
| Synonyms | muscle spasm, spasm | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | symptom | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blepharospasm, charley horse, charley-horse, crick, graphospasm, kink, myoclonus, opisthotonos, rick, tenesmus, trismus, twitch, twitching, vellication, wrick, writer's cramp | ||
| 2. | cramp (artifact) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | clamp, clinch | ||
| 3. | cramp (artifact) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | ||
| Synonyms | cramp iron | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | slip, strip | ||
English verb: cramp | |||
| 1. | cramp (contact) secure with a cramp | ||
| Samples | Cramp the wood. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fasten, fix, secure | ||
| 2. | cramp (change) prevent the progress or free movement of | ||
| Samples | He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather. The imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries. | ||
| Synonyms | halter, hamper, strangle | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel | ||
| 3. | cramp (body) affect with or as if with a cramp | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | affect | ||
| 4. | cramp (body) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | get, have, suffer, sustain | ||
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