cramp

1a :  a usually iron device bent at the ends and used to hold timbers or blocks of stone togetherb :  clamp

2a :  something that confines :  shackleb :  the state of being confined

1 :  to affect with or as if with a cramp or cramps

2a :  confine, restrain was cramped in the tiny apartmentb :  to restrain from free expression —used especially in the phrase cramp one's style

3 :  to fasten or hold with a cramp

:  to be affected with cramps

1 :  hard to understand or figure out cramp law terms cramp handwriting

2 :  being cramped a cramp corner

1 :  a sudden painful tightening of a muscle

2 :  sharp pain in the abdomen —usually used in pl.

1 :  to cause or experience a sudden painful muscular tightening in My hand was cramping from all the writing.

2 :  to hold back from free action or expression :  hamper We were cramped by all the rules.

1:  a painful involuntary spasmodic contraction of a muscle a cramp in the leg

2:  a temporary paralysis of muscles from overuse—see writer's cramp

3a:  sharp abdominal pain—usually used in pluralb:  persistent and often intense though dull lower abdominal pain associated with dysmenorrhea—usually used in plural

:  to affect with or as if with a cramp or cramps gout cramping his limbs