cramp
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
Types & categories
- symptom hypernym
- charley horse hyponym
- writer's cramp hyponym
- blepharospasm hyponym
- kink hyponym
- myoclonus hyponym
- opisthotonos hyponym
- twitch hyponym
- tenesmus hyponym
- trismus hyponym
Sense 2 verb
secure with a cramp
cramp the wood
Types & categories
- fasten hypernym
Related & opposite
- cramp iron derivation
- cramp derivation
Sense 3 noun
a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
Types & categories
- clamp hypernym
Related & opposite
- cramp derivation
Sense 4 verb
prevent the progress or free movement of
He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather
Types & categories
- throttle hypernym
Related & opposite
- hamper derivation
Sense 5 noun
a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
Types & categories
- strip hypernym
Related & opposite
- cramp derivation
Sense 6 verb
affect with or as if with a cramp
Types & categories
- affect hypernym
Sense 7 verb
suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
Types & categories
- suffer hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | symptom |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | charley horse |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | writer's cramp |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | blepharospasm |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | kink |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | myoclonus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | opisthotonos |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | twitch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tenesmus |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trismus |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cramp iron |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cramp |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fasten |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | cramp |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | clamp |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | hamper |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | throttle |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | cramp |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | strip |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | affect |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | suffer |