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Cramp logo #10101) Ache 2) American slang for to annoy 3) Calf muscle malady 4) Charley horse 5) Charlie horse 6) Confine 7) Constraint 8) French word used in English 9) Hinder 10) Inhibit 11) Intense ache 12) Muscle ailment 13) Muscle annoyance 14) Muscle malady 15) Muscle problem 16) Muscle spasm 17) Muscle twinge
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Cramp logo #10101) Blepharospasm 2) Constrain 3) Crick 4) Graphospasm 5) Kink 6) Myoclonus 7) Opisthotonos 8) Pain 9) Pang 10) Rick 11) Spasm 12) Stitch 13) Tenesmus 14) Trismus 15) Twinge 16) Twitch 17) Twitching 18) Vellication 19) Wrick
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  1. a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
  2. a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
  3. a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together

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Cramp logo #21000 A cramp is a sudden, severe, and involuntary muscle contraction or over-shortening; while generally temporary and non-damaging, they can cause mild-to-excruciating pain, and a paralysis-like immobility of the affected muscle(s). Onset is usually sudden, and it resolves on its own over a period of several seconds, minutes, or hours. There are two m...
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Cramp logo #21002• (v. t.) to bind together; to unite. • (v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp. • (n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc. • (n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is ...
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cramp logo #21003painful, involuntary, and sustained contraction of muscle, most common in the limbs but also affecting certain internal organs. Examples of cramping ... [2 related articles]
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cramp logo #21579A sharp pain that occurs when a muscle suddenly contracts (tightens up). Cramps commonly occur in the abdomen and legs.
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Cramp logo #20575 Sustained contraction of a muscle.
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cramp logo #209731. A painful muscle spasm caused by prolonged tetanic contraction. ... 2. A localised muscle spasm related to occupational use, qualified according to the occupation of the sufferer; e.g., seamstress's cramp, writer's cramp. ... Origin: M.E. Crampe, fr. O. Fr., fr. Germanic ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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cramp logo #21001(kramp) a painful spasmodic muscular contraction. heat cramp spasm accompanied by pain, weak pulse, and dilated pupils; seen in workers in intense heat. recumbency cramps cramping in the muscles of the lower limbs and feet occurring while resting or during ...
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Cramp logo #20972Cramp (krămp) noun [ Middle English crampe , craumpe ; akin to D. & Swedish kramp , Danish krampe , German krampf (whence French crampe ), Icelandic krappr strait, narrow, and to English crimp , crumple ; confer cram . See ...
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Cramp logo #20972Cramp adjective [ See Cramp , noun ] Knotty; difficult. [ R.] « Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion. Coleridge. »
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Cramp logo #20972Cramp noun (Medicine) A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp ; milker's cramp , etc.
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Cramp logo #20972Cramp transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Cramped (kr...mt; 215); present participle & verbal noun Cramping .] 1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder. « The mind my be as m...
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cramp logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: kramp Definitions: 1. A painful muscle spasm caused by prolonged tetanic contraction. 2. A localized muscle spasm related to occupational use, classified according to the occupation of the sufferer; seamstress's cramp, writer's cramp.
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Cramp logo #21217Cramp is a severe spasm of certain muscles, usually of a limb, but often of the chest or abdomen.
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Cramp logo #21217A cramp is a metal bar with both ends bent over at right angles. It is used in masonry for firmly connecting adjacent blocks of stone, each end of the cramp being let into a stone and secured with cement or lead.
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Cramp logo #21217Cramp is Black American slang for an unpleasant, unpopular woman.
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Cramp logo #22189A
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cramp logo #20400[n] - a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued 2. [n] - a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles 3. [v] - secure with a cramp
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Cramp logo #22646A tool for squeezing two or more pieces of material together.
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cramp logo #21602portable tool or press with a movable part which can be screwed up so as to hold things together; esp. one used by joiners and others for pressing together two pieces of wood, etc. which are being joined.
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cramp logo #20974cramp iron noun a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
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cramp logo #21199Often, · a sudden, involuntary, spasmodic contraction of a muscle or group of muscles, esp. of the extremities, sometimes with severe pain. · a piercing pain in the abdomen. · an intermittent, painful contraction of structures of a wall containing involuntary muscle, as in biliary colic or in the uterine contractions of menstruati...
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