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Meanings of cramp in English

Portuguese
estorvar
Catalan
dificultar
Spanish
dificultar

Prevent the progress or free movement of.

        estorvar
        Portuguese
        câimbra
        Catalan
        espasme
        Spanish
        espasmo muscular

        A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.

              câimbra
              Russian
              синдром крампи
              Portuguese
              cãimbras
              Spanish
              calambres musculares
              Catalan
              rampa

              Pathological, often painful, involuntary muscle contraction.

                    синдром крампи
                    Catalan
                    grapa

                    A strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together.

                          grapa
                          Usage of cramp in English
                          1
                          You might think this was an approach guaranteed to cramp Scriabin's style.
                          The Irish Times
                          2
                          My bedfellows are Cough and cramp, we sleep 3 in a bed.
                          The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 / Letters 1821-184...
                          3
                          With the cramp threatening to recur, I didn't even try to run.
                          Seize the night
                          4
                          The arm that held Jacob began to cramp, so she switched sides.
                          Serena
                          5
                          Is it comfortable to hold or does it make our hand cramp?
                          NY Magazine
                          6
                          She was at times taken with cramp, and plunged in a stupor.
                          A Love Episode
                          7
                          He quickened his pace, but she complained of cramp in her side.
                          The Billow and the Rock
                          8
                          My arms, stretched out in front of me, were beginning to cramp.
                          A knife edge
                          9
                          The professor went under as if he had been seized with cramp.
                          Love Among the Chickens
                          10
                          They started up it, Michael's legs beginning to cramp under Adam's weight.
                          The Wolf’s Hour
                          11
                          Then when I did that last layup, it started to cramp up.
                          Reuters
                          12
                          A cramp caught Karris as she was ushered to the central pavilion.
                          The black prism
                          13
                          Caim counted thirty heartbeats, until his hands and toes began to cramp.
                          Shadow's son
                          14
                          Then came a paralyzing cramp, and with it something round and hard.
                          In the Tall Grass
                          15
                          The Arab's exaggeratedly short stirrup would have given her agonies of cramp.
                          The Sheik: A Novel
                          16
                          His drowning was ascribed to cramp, alligators or being hit by driftwood.
                          News.com.au
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                          Translations for cramp
                          Cramp through the time
                          Cramp across language varieties
                          United States of America
                          Common
                          United Kingdom
                          Common