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单词 cramp
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cramp
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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 FAMILY
cramp: cramped, cramping, cramps
USAGE EXAMPLES
He 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)
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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 cramp
muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil
blepharospasm
spasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye
crick, kink, rick, wrick
a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
myoclonus
a clonic spasm of a muscle or muscle group
opisthotonos
severe spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back
twitch, twitching, vellication
a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition
tenesmus
painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome
trismus
prolonged spasm of the jaw muscles
tic
a local and habitual twitching especially in the face
blepharism
condition in which a person blinks continuously
fibrillation
muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination
fasciculation
muscular 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
Hyper
affect
act physically on; have an effect upon
2
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
cramp the wood
Hyper
fasten, fix, secure
cause to be firmly attached
3
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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