- cramped - constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments"
Antonyms: commodious, convenient (indirect, via incommodious)
- 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