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Adjective: cramped  krampt
  1. Constricted in size
    "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments"; "cramped quarters";
    - poky [informal]
Verb: cramp  kramp
  1. Secure with a cramp
    "cramp the wood"
     
  2. Restrict, constrain, or suppress the movement, growth, or activity of
    "Small offices cramped their expansion plans";
    - hamper, strangle, throttle
     
  3. Affect with or as if with a cramp
    "The cold water cramped his muscles"
     
  4. Suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
    "His leg cramped during the swim"

See also: incommodious

Type of: affect, bound, confine, fasten, fix, get, have, limit, restrict, secure, suffer, sustain, throttle, trammel

Encyclopedia: Cramp, Stanley