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Word entry · 5 letters

cramp

Best crossword clue

"Muscle spasm"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kɹæmp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acmprStarts with CEnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle

Word origin

From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.

Used in a sentence

  • He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.
  • August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
  • A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind.

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