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🦵 To relieve tightness 🏠 To make spacious
to uncramp

to uncramp

1 6.1
To make a room feel less crowded by moving furniture
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈkræmp/
: desahogar
  • They rearranged the furniture to uncramp the living room for the party.

Examples

  • Opening the windows helped uncramp the small kitchen and made it feel more spacious.

  • She uncramped the closet by organizing the shelves.

  • We decided to uncramp the office by moving some desks into the hallway.

  • I need to uncramp my workspace.

  • We decided to uncramp the office by moving some desks into the hallway.

  • Opening the windows helped uncramp the small kitchen and made it feel more spacious.

  • They rearranged the furniture to uncramp the living room for the party.

Synonyms

to free up space
vsto uncramp
3 3.2

To make more room by removing or moving things

increases space by improving arrangement rather than only clearing things
to decongest
vsto uncramp
1 5.2

To make a place less crowded by removing things that block it

makes room by improving layout rather than only removing blockages

Antonyms

to tighten
157 1.5

To make something hold firmly, like a bolt or belt

to crowd
94 1.6

To move many people or animals into a small space

How Spacious

to expand
917 2.5
to widen
141 2.5
to open up
642 2.5
to uncramp
1 6.1
to cramp
22 4.0

Surface Forms

uncramp infinitive
uncramped past
uncramped past participle
uncramping present participle
uncramps third person singular

Morphology

uncramp = cramp (transparent) = un + cramp

The negative prefix 'un-' directly reverses the action of 'cramp', so learners who know 'cramp' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Uncramp is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' or 'reverse' and cramp meaning 'tight' or 'crowded', similar to the word 'crammed'. So to uncramp a room is to make it less tight and give more space.