cramp

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. Distant relative of 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
 * 2) * August 1534, Margaret Roper (or in her name), letter to Alice Alington
 * the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
 * 1) That which confines or contracts.
 * 2) A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
 * 3) 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.
 * 1) A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
 * 2) 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.
 * 1) 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.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መሸማቀቅ
 * Arabic: تَشَنُّج, شَدٌّ عَضَلِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: сутарга, спазма
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kalambre
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 抽筋
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kramfo
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: cambra,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hiligaynon: palamusug, busug, duklong , palaminhod
 * Hungarian:
 * Ilocano: betteg
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: féith-chrapadh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: kaiambra
 * Korean:
 * Latin: pnix
 * Malay: kejangan
 * Maori: kuiki, kaurapa, hakoko, uauawhiti, parerori, uhu, kohukohu, kokohu
 * Mapudungun: trekefün
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: krampe
 * Pangasinan: kelat, polikat, alibuegbueg
 * Plautdietsch: Kraump
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: spazam,
 * Slovak: kŕč
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pulikat
 * Thai: ตะคริว
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Venetian:, sgranf
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Waray-Waray: kalambre, banhod, bikog


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, encospia, encorpia
 * Italian:, ,


 * Albanian: ,
 * French:
 * Ido:
 * Romanian:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
 * 2)  To affect with cramps or spasms.
 * 3) * 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
 * The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
 * 1)  To prohibit movement or expression of.
 * 2)  To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
 * You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
 * 1) To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
 * 2)  To bind together; to unite.
 * 3) To form on a cramp.
 * 1) To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
 * 2)  To bind together; to unite.
 * 3) To form on a cramp.
 * 1) To form on a cramp.

Derived terms

 * cramp someone's style

Translations

 * Bulgarian: схващам се,
 * Finnish: kouristaa, krampata, vetää suonta
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Malay: mengejang
 * Maori: parerori, hui
 * Mongolian:
 * Romanian: se crispa
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: acalambrarse
 * Ukrainian: зводити, звести


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: хващам със скоба
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1)  cramped; narrow

Adjective

 * 1) intricate, complex