crampnoun
uk/kræmp/us/kræmp/[ C or U ] a sudden painful tightening in a muscle, often after a lot of exercise, that limits movement:
Several runners needed treatment for cramp (US cramps) and exhaustion.
I've got cramp in my foot.
stomach cramps
cramps [ plural ]
pains in the lower stomach caused by a woman's period
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- atrophy
- catalepsy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- motor neuron disease
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- persistent vegetative state
- rabid
- rabies
- spasm
- vapour
- writer's cramp
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Pain & painful
crampverb [ T ]
uk/kræmp/us/kræmp/to limit someone, especially to prevent them from enjoying a full life:
Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
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Limiting and restricting
- box sb in
- chain
- circumscribe
- clamp down on sth
- clampdown
- curb
- curtail
- damage limitation
- debilitate
- delimit
- hamstring
- hedge
- infringe
- localize
- muzzle
- non-proliferation
- qualification
- ration
- rationing
- stabilizer
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Idiom(s)
cramp sb's style