Unscramble cramp

Definition of cramp

noun:

• a painful and involuntary muscular contraction. Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm.
• a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued.
• a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together. Synonyms: cramp iron.

verb:

• secure with a cramp; "cramp the wood".
• 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.
• affect with or as if with a cramp.
• suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle.

Related words

blepharospasm, crick, graphospasm, kink, myoclonus, opisthotonos, rick, tenesmus, trismus, twitch, twitching, vellication, wrick.

Words nearby

camp, champ, clamp, cram, crap, crimp, crump, ramp, tramp.

Rhymes with

amp, camp, champ, clamp, damp, decamp, encamp, gamp, lamp, ramp, revamp, stamp, tamp, tramp, vamp.