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cramp

SubstantivVerbAdjektivin Dialogen belegt

  • //kɹæmp//

A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.

    He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.

    August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.

  2. 2

    That which confines or contracts.

    A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind.

    How does it grate upon his thankleſs ear, / Crippling his pleaſures with the cramp of fear!

  3. 3

    A clamp for carpentry or masonry.

  4. 4

    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 stretched to give it the requisite shape.

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Frankish *krampōder. Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Middle Dutch crampeder. Old French crampebor. Middle English crampe English cramp From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.

Verb

  1. 1

    (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    übertragenTo prohibit movement or expression of.

    You're cramping my style.

    But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side

  4. 4

    To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

    You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.

    when the gout cramps my joints

  5. 5

    To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.

  6. 6

    To bind together; to unite.

    The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.

  7. 7

    To form on a cramp.

    to cramp boot legs

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    altertümlichcramped; narrow

    […] the result was those folio volumes of MSS. now in the British Museum, in which inquirers into the history of that period find so much interesting material in such a confused state and in such a dreadfully cramp handwriting.

Formen

Plural
cramps
Komparativ
more cramp
Superlativ
most cramp
Präteritum
cramped
Partizip II
cramped
Partizip I
cramping
3. Person Singular
cramps
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