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

78 1.0

To make or become less tight

Idioms

C

to cramp someone's style

• Informal

1 7.8

Make someone feel they cannot act freely or be themselves

Compounds

W

writer's cramp

• Specialized

1 7.5

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

C

cramp iron

• UK

9.8

A metal strip with bent ends that holds stone blocks together

I

intermittent cramp

• Specialized

7.5

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

S

sudden cramp

2.9

A sharp pain when a muscle suddenly tightens

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

8 6.5

to cramp

21 3.2

to twinge

1 6.0

Surface Forms

Etymology