0 present participle of cramp
1 to limit someone, especially to prevent them from enjoying a full life:
Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
This was causing her in turn to complain of both fatigue and cramping in her left shoulderblade.
The clinical diagnosis is based on explosive watery diarrhoea, cramping abdominal pain, abdominal distension and flatulence after the ingestion of milk or milk products.
In four of these the cramping and pain during the first day became sufficiently severe to necessitate removal of the device.
Many of these women continued with it despite abnormal bleeding and cramping for up to 19 months.
Most subjects reported mild to moderate abdominal cramping.
The aim of these thinkers was to foster national progress by opening space in their societies for arts and sciences free of the cramping influence of scripture.
Because of this distribution, the cramping information is only needed in the first pass, while the information whether to add penalties is needed in the second pass only.
Tenesmus, urgency, cramping and infra-umbilical abdominal pain are prominent features.