to cramp

Examples

• All

• Your stomach could cramp up.

  The Mountain Between Us (2017)

• Anna felt her fingers cramping on the pencil; a fine line of sweat broke out on her brow.

  Fiction book (1999)

• No one's there and my hand is starting to cramp up.

  Superfast! (2015)

• The thing is, though, my hand starts to cramp when I write for a long time.

  Blog text (26)

• Her stomach was beginning to cramp up on her and make funny noises.

  Fiction book (1993)

• His hand began to cramp, but he didn't stop writing.

  Fiction book (2002)

• My leg's cramping up like crazy.

  AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)

• A few minutes after he'd finished eating, his stomach began to cramp, but nothing worse happened.

  Fiction book (1998)

• My leg's cramping!

  Marmaduke (2010)

• I'm cramping.

  Going in Style (2017)

Antonyms

R

to release

∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

R

to relax

81 1.0

To make or become less tight

Idioms

C

to cramp someone's style

• Informal

17 7.8

Make someone feel they cannot act freely or be themselves

Compounds

W

writer's cramp

• Specialized

2 7.5

A painful, tight feeling in the hand or fingers after writing for a long time

I

intermittent cramp

• Specialized

1 7.5

Painful muscle twitching that comes and goes, sometimes with seizures, from low calcium or vitamin D

S

sudden cramp

1 2.9

A sharp pain when a muscle suddenly tightens

C

cramp iron

• UK

1 9.8

A metal strip with bent ends that holds stone blocks together

W

wanker's cramp

• Offensive

9.9

A painful tightness in the hand after doing the same movement too much, for example when typing or gaming

How Painful

to seize up

11 6.5

to cramp

43 3.2

to twinge

1 6.0

Surface Forms

Etymology