- spasm, cramp, muscle spasm - a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
--1 is a kind of symptom
--1 has particulars:charley horse, charley-horse; writer's cramp, graphospasm; blepharospasm; crick, rick, wrick; myoclonus; opisthotonos; twitch, twitching, vellication; tenesmus; trismus - cramp - a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
--2 is a kind of clamp
Derived form: verb cramp1 - cramp, cramp iron - a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
--3 is a kind of strip, slip
Derived form: verb cramp1
- cramp - secure with a cramp; "cramp the wood"
--1 is one way to fasten, fix, secure
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun cramp3, noun cramp2
Somebody ----s something
- hamper, halter, cramp, strangle - prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
--2 is one way to restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something