cramp

🇺🇸 /kræmp/ 🇬🇧 /kræmp/
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noun
R

A painful muscle tightening that can happen when you exercise too much or get cold.

After swimming in the cold water, she got a cramp in her leg.

R

A very bad stomachache.

After eating too much at the party, he had a stomach cramp.

verb
R

To limit or restrict something from growing or developing.

The new rules will cramp our ability to express our ideas freely.

translation

n. A painful muscle tightening that can happen when you exercise too much or get cold.; A very bad stomachache.
v. To limit or restrict something from growing or developing.

Word Forms

3rd Present cramps
Past cramped
Perfect cramped
Progressive cramping
Plural cramps