Dictionary Entry
cramp
cramp is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
- 2noun
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
- 3noun
A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
- 6transitive verb
To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
- 7transitive verb
To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
- 8transitive verb
to bind together; to unite.
- 9transitive verb
To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
- 10transitive verb
To afflict with cramp.
- 11noun
Knotty; difficult.
- 12noun
a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
- 13noun
a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
- 14noun
a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
Synonyms
- 15verb
suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
- 16verb
affect with or as if with a cramp
- 17verb
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"
- 18verb
secure with a cramp
"cramp the wood"
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