to cramp

Examples

• All

• You are cramping my style.

  Death Drop Gorgeous (2021)

• You're cramping our style.

  Shanghai Knights (2003)

• It's starting to cramp her style.

  Escape Room (2019)

• - I didn't want to cramp your style.

  Shaun of the Dead (2004)

• You guys are cramping my style.

  Fantastic Four (2005)

• Oh, am I cramping your style?

  The Divorcee (1930)

• Don't let anything cramp your style.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I still think you're cramping my style.

  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

• Eleanor's lunatic idea of going into business with her was starting to cramp his love life a little.

  Fiction book (1998)

• People are having fun and making the best of a snowstorm that will cramp everyone's style for a few days.

  Blog text (13)

Synonyms

H

to hamper

vsto cramp

47 4.2

To make it harder for someone or something to move forward

is a broader restriction that can also prevent development entirely

S

to strangle

vsto cramp

33 6.7

To limit growth or activity so it cannot continue

is milder, focusing on restriction without such extreme suppression

H

to hobble

vsto cramp

14 5.7

To limit the progress or success of something

is a more general restriction of development or movement

H

to hamstring

vsto cramp

1 7.9

To make a person or group unable to act effectively

is a general restriction that does not always cause total powerlessness

Antonyms

A

to allow

∞ 1.0

To let something happen or let someone do something

F

to facilitate

• Formal

187 4.9

To make a task or process easier and help it happen

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 Restricted

to cramp

20 4.0

to stifle

49 5.3

to inhibit

30 5.4

to restrict

361 3.1

Surface Forms

Etymology