crampy
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈkræmpi/
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con calambres
- Mom, I can't work on an empty stomach, my legs get crampy.
You wake up and you're going to feel crampy, and you'll get a period tenish days later.
- You wake up and you're going to feel crampy, and you'll get a period tenish days later.
- And so we'd already talked about the aching and the crampy deep kind of pain, chest pain that can kill you.
- And so it, it felt crampy, but it didn't feel excruciating at that point.
Examples
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During her period, Jamie often experiences a crampy discomfort in her lower abdomen.
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After the workout, I felt a crampy sensation in my calves that made it hard to walk.
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Like I feel a lot better knowing what it is, but I have this kind of weird crampy feeling in my lower right stomach.
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You wake up, you feel a little crampy, you eat a little bit, you walk around, go to the bathroom and then you go home and your eggs are frozen.
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And so it, it felt crampy, but it didn't feel excruciating at that point.
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And so we'd already talked about the aching and the crampy deep kind of pain, chest pain that can kill you.
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You wake up and you're going to feel crampy, and you'll get a period tenish days later.
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Since stopping, I have suffered severe crampy and painful abdominal pain with bloating (which was only relieved by going to the toilet).
Blog text (5) -
She presented to our institution with a one-month history of diarrhea, headache, crampy abdominal pain, fever, chills, dizziness, weakness, and nausea.
Academic text (2007) -
He noticed a crampy feeling in his hand after playing the guitar for too long.
Synonyms
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3.0
Feeling sore with a dull pain in muscles or joints
Antonyms
How Painful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crampy comes from cramp (a sudden, tight pain in a muscle) plus the ending -y that makes an adjective; imagine a clamp 'squeezing' the muscle. So crampy means causing or feeling that tight, painful squeeze.