crampedadj.
/krampt//ˈkrampɪd/ 1. Seized with cramp; suffering from the painful contraction of muscles which characterizes cramp.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > spasm or cramp > affected with
spasmatic1601
cramped1702
spasmed1787
spasmodized1819
spasmya1849
tetanized1849
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 15 The Limbs of some Indian Penitents, become altogether crampt and motionless for want of use.
1858 W. Morris Def. Guenevere 210 And when she slipp'd from off the bed, Her cramp'd feet would not hold her.
1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. xx. 347 It was morning when they got out cramped and frozen.
1884 Times 30 Jan. 9/5 His cramped fingers could scarcely hold the pencil.
2. Forcibly or unnaturally compressed and confined; constrained.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > small or cramped
strict1649
cramp1731
polymicrian1829
niggling1854
cramped1876
1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion iii. 29 Ye make a worse noise then crampt Hedg-hogs.
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 190 The creative power lying coiled and cramped here.
1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow III. xiii. 155 The direction was written in..crooked, cramped little characters.
3.
a. Confined, restricted in space, extent, action, etc.
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the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious
narroweOE
straitc1290
unwidea1400
scanta1533
angust1540
roomless1548
pinched?1567
niggard1595
strict1598
straitened1602
pinching1607
incommodious1615
incapacious1635
over-strait1645
straiteninga1652
cramp1786
bottleneck1854
cramped1884
tight1937
claustrophobic1946
claustrophobe1954
1796 F. Burney Lett. 25 Nov. She would go to Ireland..to see you, were her fortune less miserably cramped.
1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 221 The cramped and narrow mould of a human system.
1884 Law Times' Rep. 51 306/2 The space occupied by the schools was cramped and incapable of adequate expansion.
b. figurative. Confined or restricted in character; narrow.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective]
narroweOE
restraint1445
modifiedc1485
limitate1541
restricteda1550
strait-laced1549
scant1556
circumcised1561
contract1561
restrained1578
determinate1586
limited1590
restrict1597
strict1597
confined1605
determineda1616
limitary1620
prescript1645
modificated1646
circumscribed1647
conscribed1654
limitated1654
reserved1654
coarctated1655
straiteneda1665
unabsolute1694
stinted1710
bounded1711
contracted1711
cramped1741
special1815
municipal1856
fine-cut1894
stingy1927
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited
narroweOE
restraint1445
modifiedc1485
limitate1541
restricteda1550
scant1556
contract1561
limited1590
confined1605
limitary1620
prescript1645
modificated1646
circumscribed1647
limitated1654
reserved1654
coarctated1655
unabsolute1694
bounded1711
contracted1711
cramped1741
crimped1828
stingy1927
1741 S. Richardson Pamela (ed. 2) I. Introd. p. xxxviii And squeeze cramp'd Pity from the Miser's Heart?
1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 465 The effects of a cramped medical education.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 87 In high departments they are cramped and sterile.
1885 Dunckley in Manch. Weekly Times 21 Feb. 57/5 The Archbishop's prayer..is cramped and stiff in style.
4. Fastened or secured with a cramp n.2
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1765 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 215 From the bottom of the spindle to the first cramped joints.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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