cramp - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together

Synonyms

• cramp
• cramp iron

More generic

• slip
• strip

Noun

a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued

Synonyms

• cramp

More generic

• clamp
• clinch

Noun

a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

Synonyms

• cramp
• muscle spasm
• spasm

More generic

• symptom

More specific

• blepharospasm
• charley horse
• charley-horse
• crick
• graphospasm
• kink
• myoclonus
• opisthotonos
• rick
• tenesmus
• trismus
• twitch
• twitching
• vellication
• wrick
• writer's cramp

Verb

suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle

Synonyms

• cramp

More generic

• get
• have
• suffer
• sustain

Verb

affect with or as if with a cramp

Synonyms

• cramp

More generic

• affect

Verb

prevent the progress or free movement of

Synonyms

• cramp
• halter
• hamper
• strangle

More generic

• bound
• confine
• limit
• restrict
• throttle
• trammel

Verb

secure with a cramp

Synonyms

• cramp

More generic

• fasten
• fix
• secure

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