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.
We should not be more skrimping and cramping in what we do for elected councillors than we are in the case of local officials.
It will suffer from artificial, cramping, financial limits imposed not in the interest of the industry's development, but for other reasons.
There is no cramping of opinion or of taste here.
This development is proceeding without dislocation and without friction, notwithstanding the cramping effects of constant economy.
This stressed the importance of well-fitting shoes which allow children's feet to develop without cramping or distortion.
They point out that district audit has a cramping and limiting effect.
It seems odd that in non-built up areas, school space should be confined by specifications which are sometimes rather cramping.
Tenesmus, urgency, cramping and infra-umbilical abdominal pain are prominent features.
