| 单词 | cramp |
| 释义 | cramp (once / 918 pages) 1nv 2nv 3v When a muscle in your body tenses up painfully, it's a cramp. If you get a cramp in your leg when you're swimming, you have to stop and stretch out the muscle until the cramp goes away. Muscle cramps are a side effect of exercise and fatigue, and they can often be avoided by stretching before and after a run or a game of basketball. Cramp is also a verb, meaning both "contract painfully," and also "hold back, or prevent free movement." This is what you mean when you say, "Mom, please don't walk me in to school — you'll cramp my style." WORD FAMILYcramp: cramped, cramping, cramps USAGE EXAMPLESHe looked around the cramped shop, which contained nearly everything he owned. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) The case involved a newly pregnant woman experiencing abdominal cramping and fever. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) They lived in a cramped apartment on Ft. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n a painful and involuntary muscular contraction Syn|Hypo|Hyper muscle spasm, spasm charley horse, charley-horse a muscular cramp (especially in the thigh or calf) following vigorous exercise graphospasm, writer's crampmuscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil blepharospasmspasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye crick, kink, rick, wricka painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) myoclonusa clonic spasm of a muscle or muscle group opisthotonossevere spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back twitch, twitching, vellicationa sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition tenesmuspainful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome trismusprolonged spasm of the jaw muscles tica local and habitual twitching especially in the face blepharismcondition in which a person blinks continuously fibrillationmuscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination fasciculationmuscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease 2v suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle Hyper get, have, suffer, sustain undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) 3v affect with or as if with a cramp 2Hyper affect act physically on; have an effect upon 1n a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued Hyper clamp, clinch a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together 2n a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together Syn|Hyper cramp iron slip, strip artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material 3v secure with a cramp 3cramp the wood Hyper fasten, fix, secure cause to be firmly attached v prevent the progress or free movement of Syn|Hyper halter, hamper, strangle bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel place limits on (extent or access) |
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