cramp
1. a painful and involuntary muscular contraction (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
spasm, muscle spasm
• Hypernyms:
symptom
• Hyponyms:
charley horse, charley-horse, writer's cramp, graphospasm, blepharospasm,
crick, kink, rick, wrick, myoclonus, opisthotonos,
twitch, twitching, vellication, tenesmus, trismus
2. a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
• Hypernyms:
clamp, clinch
3. a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles;
used to hold masonry together
• Syn:
cramp iron
• Hypernyms:
strip, slip
1. secure with a cramp
- cramp the wood
• Hypernyms:
fasten, fix, secure
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. prevent the progress or free movement of
- He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather
- the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries
• Syn:
hamper, halter, strangle
• Derivationally related forms:
hamper (for: hamper)
• Hypernyms:
restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound,
confine, throttle
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. affect with or as if with a cramp
• Hypernyms:
affect
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
4. suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
• Hypernyms:
suffer, sustain, have, get
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
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