Synonyms of cramping

cramping 1 of 2

adjective

as in bleeding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bleeding
• burning
• chafing
• nagging
• stinging
• detrimental
• harmful
• damaging
• swollen
• itching
• pinching
• festering
• raw
• deleterious
• injurious
• pernicious
• prickling
• smarting
• inflamed
• tender
• noxious
• hurtful
• agonizing
• pricking
• excruciating
• aching
• hurting
• severe
• painful
• sore
• torturous
• threatening
• enflamed
• achy
• grievous
• wounding
• afflictive
• nasty

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• helping
• healing
• painless
• remedial
• indolent
• curative

• helping
• healing
• painless
• remedial
• indolent
• curative

cramping

2 of 2

verb

present participle of cramp

as in impeding

to create difficulty for the work or activity of

having to constantly entertain guests at the summer cottage was really cramping my writing efforts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• impeding
• hampering
• hindering
• embarrassing
• obstructing
• handicapping
• inhibiting
• hobbling
• delaying
• clogging
• interfering (with)
• stymieing
• holding back
• restraining
• tieing up
• encumbering
• disrupting
• tying up
• shackling
• trammelling
• fettering
• constraining
• handcuffing
• frustrating
• blocking
• manacling
• tieing
• short-circuiting
• braking
• trammeling
• hog-tying
• thwarting
• tying
• binding
• stifling
• curbing
• cramping one's style
• checking
• giving a hard time
• reining
• holding up
• retarding
• balking
• retaining
• strangling
• choking
• tethering
• bogging (down)
• suffocating
• leashing
• arresting
• baffling
• confining
• chaining
• barricading
• haltering
• blockading
• sabotaging
• smothering
• stumping
• roadblocking
• derailing
• foiling
• repressing
• miring
• suppressing
• muzzling
• hedging (in)
• hemming (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• helping
• assisting
• aiding
• facilitating
• opening
• clearing
• freeing
• liberating
• loosening
• releasing
• unstopping
• unplugging
• making way
• smoothing
• promoting
• unclogging
• encouraging
• untieing
• untying
• furthering

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• helping
• assisting
• aiding
• facilitating
• opening
• clearing
• freeing
• liberating
• loosening
• releasing
• unstopping
• unplugging
• making way
• smoothing
• promoting
• unclogging
• encouraging
• untieing
• untying
• furthering

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