cramped
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
cramped
adj 1: constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring
children up in cramped high-rise apartments"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cramped} (kr[a^]mt; 215); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Cramping}.]
1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and
contract; to hinder.
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The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge
as by ignorance. --Layard.
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2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
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3. Hence, to bind together; to unite.
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The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped
and bolted together in all its parts. --Burke.
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4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
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5. To afflict with cramp.
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When the gout cramps my joints. --Ford.
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{To cramp the wheels of wagon}, to turn the front wheels out
of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be
against the body of the wagon.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
173 Moby Thesaurus words for "cramped":
Latinate, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate,
angustiseptal, authoritarian, awkward, barred, beleaguered, beset,
besieged, bigot, bigoted, blockaded, bombastic, borne, bound,
bounded, boxed in, cabined, caged, circumscribed, clamped,
cloistered, close, close-fitting, closed, closed-in, compressed,
concentrated, condensed, conditioned, confined, consolidated,
constricted, contracted, cooped, copyrighted, cordoned,
cordoned off, corralled, cramp, creedbound, cribbed, crowded,
cumbrous, deaf, deaf to reason, dinky, disciplined, elephantine,
enclosed, exiguous, fanatical, fenced, finite, forced, formal,
guinde, half-pint, halting, heavy, hedged, hedged about, hedged in,
hemmed, hemmed in, hidebound, icebound, illiberal, immured,
imprisoned, incapacious, incarcerated, incommodious, inkhorn,
insular, isthmian, isthmic, jailed, knee-high, knitted, labored,
landlocked, leaden, leaguered, limited, little, little-minded,
lumbering, meager, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mewed, minute,
moderated, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled,
narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, nipped, one-horse, paled,
parochial, patented, penned, pent-up, petite, petty, piddling,
pinched, pinched-in, pindling, pint-sized, poky, pompous,
ponderous, prescribed, proscribed, provincial, puckered, puny,
purblind, pursed, qualified, quarantined, railed, restrained,
restricted, scant, scanty, sesquipedalian, short, shortsighted,
shut-in, slender, slight, small, small-minded, smallish, snowbound,
solidified, squeezed, stiff, stilted, stinted, strait, straitened,
straitlaced, strangled, strangulated, stuffy, tight, tiny, turgid,
two-by-four, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncomfortable, ungenerous,
unliberal, unwieldy, walled, walled-in, wasp-waisted, windbound,
wrinkled, ,
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