Cramp Definition
- To restrict or prevent from free action or expression.
- to hamper someone's usual skill or confidence in doing something
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cramp
- cramp (one's) style
- cramp someone's style
Origin of Cramp
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From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe, cranpe (“cramp”), from Old Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *grem- (“to unite; lap, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to unite, collect, forgather”). Cognate with Dutch kramp (“cramp”), German Low German Kramp (“cramp”), German Krampe and Krampf (“cramp”), Swedish kramp (“cramp”), Icelandic krampa (“cramp”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English crampe probably from Middle Dutch hook, cramp Adj., probably akin to Icelandic krappr constrained, tight and Old High German cramf squeezed
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English crampe from Old French of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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