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cramped \cramped\ adj.
inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living
quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped
office.

Syn: constricted, inconvenient, uncomfortably small.
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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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