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Webster 1828 Edition


Cramped

CRAMPED

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Affected with spasm; convulsed; confined; restrained.

Definition 2024


cramped

cramped

English

Verb

cramped

  1. simple past tense and past participle of cramp

Adjective

cramped (comparative more cramped, superlative most cramped)

  1. Uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially.
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
      Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, []. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  2. Overcrowded or congested.
  3. Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
  4. Illegible.

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