Cramped

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cramped
       adj : constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring
             children up in cramped high-rise apartments"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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, ,