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Definition of Cramping
1. cramp [v] - See also: cramp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cramping
Literary usage of Cramping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures, Clinical and Didactic, on the Diseases of Women by Reuben Ludlam (1872)
"The incidental symptoms are interesting and significant. The cramping pains of
which Mrs. complains are referable to The cramping pains. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"Evidently an injury cramping the growth at this time can not be remedied ; and
if the children have any tendency to become bandy-legged or knock-kneed, ..."
3. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, H. Tetu, Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"... naturally express them, instead of being bound by harsh and cruel custom to
an exterior of polite indifference, a cold, cramping, stifling uniformity. ..."
4. William George Ward and the Oxford Movement by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"... naturally express them, instead of being bound by harsh and cruel custom to
an exterior of polite indifference, a cold, cramping, stifling uniformity. ..."
5. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"But though the immediate results of the Empire were splendid, the cramping and
paralysing influence of despotism was not long in making itself felt. ..."
6. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"But though the immediate results of the Empire were splendid, the cramping and
paralysing influence of despotism was not long in making itself felt. ..."
7. Lectures, Clinical and Didactic, on the Diseases of Women by Reuben Ludlam (1872)
"The incidental symptoms are interesting and significant. The cramping pains of
which Mrs. complains are referable to The cramping pains. ..."
8. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"Evidently an injury cramping the growth at this time can not be remedied ; and
if the children have any tendency to become bandy-legged or knock-kneed, ..."
9. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, H. Tetu, Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"... naturally express them, instead of being bound by harsh and cruel custom to
an exterior of polite indifference, a cold, cramping, stifling uniformity. ..."
10. William George Ward and the Oxford Movement by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"... naturally express them, instead of being bound by harsh and cruel custom to
an exterior of polite indifference, a cold, cramping, stifling uniformity. ..."
11. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"But though the immediate results of the Empire were splendid, the cramping and
paralysing influence of despotism was not long in making itself felt. ..."
12. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"But though the immediate results of the Empire were splendid, the cramping and
paralysing influence of despotism was not long in making itself felt. ..."
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