Tra từ cramp - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cramped conditions (=without enough space)
▪ The hostages were held in extremely cramped conditions.
cramped/poky (=too small and not comfortable)
▪ She spends most days shut up in a poky flat looking after her disabled Mum.
stomach pains/cramps
▪ He complained of acute stomach pains.
writer's cramp
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
abdominal
▪ The abdominal cramps are not linked with the surgery.
▪ Other features include fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and, less commonly, skin rashes.
▪ It is sometimes bloody, occasionally accompanied by vomiting and abdominal cramps and much less frequently by low-grade fever.
NOUN
stomach
▪ Why, then, should I be moved by cold or a stomach cramp?
▪ Too much dried fruit at one time can cause stomach cramps, gas and even diarrhea.
▪ Midway through the fourth lap, I began to develop stomach cramps.
VERB
get
▪ I got cramp Did you take too little or too much liquid on board?
▪ I got cramp in my leg and I just couldn't get out of the chair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Muscle cramps often happen when you exercise in hot weather.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Drinking is a safeguard, but huge amounts of water may overwhelm the gastrointestinal tract, causing cramps, bloating, nausea.
▪ He eventually received a stack of complaints about adverse reactions, including cramps, nausea, heart palpitations, and severe diarrhea.
▪ He pulled his toes backwards, hard, to ease the cramp.
▪ Later in the dressing room, everyone was suffering cramps.
▪ Leg cramps also occurred in about 5 percent of women on raloxifene compared with 1. 5 percent on placebo.
▪ The parasite, originating in human fecal matter, in turn causes diarrhea, fatigue, loss of appetite and cramps.
▪ Workers have attributed skin rashes, dizziness, muscle cramps and miscarriages to the chemicals and physical hardship they endure.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
up
▪ The chair must be cramped up, if not glued up, for accurate positioning.
▪ I tried to play with it and it cramped up.
NOUN
stomach
▪ My stomach cramped, and I threw up what I had eaten.
▪ Scan your stomach for nervousness, cramping, or nausea.
style
▪ But whatever it is, whatever it is they're saying or trying to say, it never cramps Tod's style.
▪ She knows her presence would cramp the girls' style.
▪ The fact that they were now civilians did not cramp their cynical teaching style.
▪ It looks as if it might cramp the teacher's style.
▪ And Morris's presence continued to cramp Dyson's style.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Federal guidelines are cramping the state's ability to adjust its own budget.
▪ His muscles cramped so severely he had to stop playing.

cramp

I. cramp¹ /kræmp/ noun
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : crampe, perhaps from Low German krampe; ⇨ cramp²]
1. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
a severe pain that you get in part of your body when a muscle becomes too tight, making it difficult for you to move that part of your body:
　 ▪ Several players were suffering from cramp.
　 ▪ muscle cramps
have/get (a) cramp
　 ▪ One of the swimmers got cramp and had to drop out of the race. ⇨ WRITER’S CRAMP

2. (stomach) cramps
[PLURAL]severe pains in the stomach, especially the ones that women get when they menstruate

II. cramp² verb
[date : 1500-1600; Origin : Partly from ⇨ cramp¹; partly from cramp 'tool for holding things together' (14-21 centuries), from Low German krampe 'hook']
1. [TRANSITIVE]
to prevent the development of someone or something SYN hinder, restrict:
　 ▪ Stricter anti-pollution laws may cramp economic growth.

2. cramp sb’s style
informal to prevent someone from behaving in the way they want to:
　 ▪ Paul said he didn’t want Sarah to come along because she cramps his style.

3. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
(also cramp up) to get or cause cramp in a muscle:
　 ▪ He cramped in the last 200 metres of the race.
　 ▪ Sitting still for so long had cramped her muscles.