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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

  1. noun. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
  2. noun. A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
  3. noun. A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
  4. noun. 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.
  5. noun. A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
  6. transitive verb. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
  7. transitive verb. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
  8. transitive verb. to bind together; to unite.
  9. transitive verb. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
  10. transitive verb. To afflict with cramp.
  11. noun. Knotty; difficult.
  12. noun. a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
  13. noun. a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
  14. noun. a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

    Synonyms: spasm

  15. verb. suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
  16. verb. affect with or as if with a cramp
  17. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle

  18. verb. secure with a cramp

    "cramp the wood"

Synonyms

spasm, halter, hamper, strangle

Common word forms

cramps, cramped, cramper, cramping

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