(cramps, cramping, cramped)
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style="padding-left: 40px">Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
style="padding-left: 60px">Hillsden was complaining of cramp in his calf muscles...
style="padding-left: 60px">She started getting stomach cramps this morning.
style="padding-left: 40px">N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
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style="padding-left: 40px">If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behaviour in some way. (INFORMAL)
style="padding-left: 60px">Like more and more women, she believes marriage would cramp her style.
style="padding-left: 40px">PHRASE: V inflects