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Definition of cramp noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cramp

noun
 
/kræmp/
 
/kræmp/
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  1. [uncountable, countable] a sudden pain that you get when the muscles in a particular part of your body contract, usually caused by cold or too much exercise
    • (British English) to get cramp in your leg
    • (North American English) to get a cramp in your leg
    see also writer’s cramp
    Extra Examples
    • I was beginning to get cramp in my leg.
    • I was suddenly seized by an attack of cramp.
    • She had a sudden painful cramp in her left leg.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • agonizing
    • bad
    • painful
    • …
    … of cramp
    • attack
    verb + cramp
    • get
    • have
    • suffer
    • …
    preposition
    • cramp in
    See full entry
  2. cramps
     [plural] severe pain in the stomachTopics Health problemsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • agonizing
    • bad
    • painful
    • …
    … of cramp
    • attack
    verb + cramp
    • get
    • have
    • suffer
    • …
    preposition
    • cramp in
    See full entry
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch krampe; sense 1 of the noun is via Old French crampe.
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