cramping

Verb

cramp (third-person singular simple present cramps, present participle cramping, simple past and past participle cramped)

1. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
2. (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
   • The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
3. (figuratively, transitive) To prohibit movement or expression of.
   • You're cramping my style.
4. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
   • You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
5. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
6. (broadly) To bind together; to unite.
   • The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics

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