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    1. Bent double with stomach cramp, I blink as the room swims around me and, as soon as it is safe to do so, I sit on the bathroom floor, my head between my knees, panting


    2. Takes you as cramp, I fancy


    3. At times his own shivering had woken him up, other times it was muscle cramp in his legs


    4. It was dark now but the dazzling array of stars and the huge full moon were more than enough to see by I stood up stretching and yawning easing the cramp out of my muscles


    5. Taking a moment to allow the last vestiges of her dream to slip away, she tested her leg once more, and finding that the cramp had subsided, headed for the surface


    6. Karl sat down calmly and held Roland’s head while his body twisted and coiled in the cramp attack that always came when the Dark had spoken through him


    7. His body still shook after the violent cramp, and he coughed and spat before he could speak


    8. I have a cramp in my (what)


    9. Before she could stop herself, she was kissing him back, sucking at his warm mouth, breathing in his breath until she felt a painful cramp in her chest


    10. He tried to repress the cramp that had begun in his outstretched right leg

    11. He, Dilimon, and as promised, half the groomsmen leaped to Mark’s aid, even as Talia cried his name in alarm, and Hilsith yelled; “Heart cramp!”, having instantly recognized the signs


    12. I’ve lost patients who could not be saved, but to lose someone so young and strong to a simple heart cramp that any third year Healer should have been able to cure, to have to helplessly revert to the most primitive techniques, only to see them fail…”


    13. “You almost gave me a heart cramp!”


    14. A sudden cramp accompanied a rather loud growl


    15. My legs were beginning to cramp so I stretched them also


    16. I shifted around in the cramp space listening through the metal


    17. Beatrice thought that I was a victim of some cramp and Mariana of some stomach unpreparedness


    18. With a bit of practice you can switch off awareness of time passing, retreating somewhere inside your head where cramp and pins and needles can"t penetrate


    19. Both Dad and Grandpop liked to visit this Shadow and being on the Watch List would definitely cramp their style


    20. Freddie felt his leg and said, “I have a bit of cramp

    21. After a while, the stomach pains dulled to a mild cramp that I could ignore


    22. She paused and sat still before she uttered what I knew was an incantation as my body seized in a cramp, and I started sweating profusely


    23. only thinking about this because I have cramp in my


    24. feel the cramp set in and he


    25. I slouched over because I was really starting to cramp


    26. was a hunger in the streets, a cramp


    27. mind was still racing and her thigh muscles started to cramp


    28. muscles were twitching and then suddenly I felt a horrible cramp


    29. He used the rifle as a crutch to straighten up and managed to stand though his knees quaked uncontrollably and fell down again as cramp took control in both calves


    30. "Critical turning-points in history are reached when a form of life and its institutions cramp and obstruct the most vigorous productive forces alive in a society - economic, social, artistic, intellectual - and it is worn out in resisting them

    31. The cramp in his left arm, through holding the clipboard, had spread to his chest and back


    32. The only break I got from the searing pain of each foot hitting the ground was the occasional leg cramp


    33. Steve, however, was beginning to cramp up


    34. however, he could feel his limbs stiffen, they threatened to cramp up and stop


    35. cramp up as a mil ion and one thoughts entered her mind


    36. Her legs started to cramp and her heartrate skyrocketed alarmingly


    37. He felt a cramp in his crotch


    38. I pity those who would cramp and pare down their meaning, and interpret them as nothing more than Christ's prophetical office and example


    39. “Where’s the cramp?”


    40. “Now go cool down so you don’t cramp up

    41. Eddie had only traveled halfway to the next floor when he felt his muscles cramp up


    42. Tom felt his heart cramp and uncramp – at last it knew what it was beating for!


    43. She had to repeatedly shift her weight from one side to the other to prevent numbness or the possibility of cramp


    44. My hand’s starting to cramp and I think I just heard the shower turn off


    45. The shoulders start to cramp, from


    46. soreness from both the cramp and the sting were gone


    47. menstrual cramp will help to maintain the balance of prostaglandins hormones


    48. treating the causes of endometrial cramp


    49. It is said that cramp bark has the best female medicine compared to other herbs


    50. Cramp bark is said to help increase the blood flow to the abdominal region, thereby



























    1. “Hardly!” Johnny paced away from her in the small cramped confines of the steel elevator they were in


    2. It was cramped but if he cinched up the laces, it was a little bit warmer at night


    3. "Yeah, that's not my greatest concern but Biology Base feels a bit cramped?"


    4. Hands and feet tangled in the cramped space


    5. I shall go to the top of this mountain and stretch my cramped legs and wings


    6. with fatigue, cramped and stiff,


    7. Most of the passengers were herded onto an old bus whereas my bit of the queue, and by that I mean myself and an older man carrying a huge cabbage, was cramped inside the rear of a much abused and dented van which was to be our very own shuttle up the mountain to Sophia


    8. travel in cramped environments and I wanted to kill myself with sleep


    9. She’s got them staying with her in her tiny two bedroom place at the moment which is cramped to say the least … the idea is that the girl will move into her own place in the village where she’ll have the benefit of her mother’s support – they’re a pretty close-knit family, Jo


    10. One bedroom is all I need, but most of the time I feel cramped

    11. The water is hot but the bath is cramped and narrow


    12. outside the window and the cramped houses eventually disappeared


    13. the body underneath him, and now it was Heather whose calves cramped in joy and


    14. The cabin became cramped


    15. was short and cramped and it was not a comfortable ride


    16. He briefly surveyed the rest of his surroundings, quickly realizing that he had managed to safely return to his cramped quarters above the Wayward Inn


    17. The road was cramped, stuffed with traffic and closed in by rows of buildings, some well over four stories high


    18. Even though the only inhabitants of the tavern were; Alec, Solo Ki, a pimp, his three whores, and the barkeep, the tiny inn seemed more cramped and uncomfortable than sitting in a coffin


    19. It grew no larger, but my leg cramped in sudden agony as if I’d sat motionless for hours


    20. He smiled again as he thought of the intended encounter in this cramped little room

    21. It was more than a bit cramped within the tent but with some careful manoeuvring it was just possible for everyone to lie down


    22. Martin and Warlock climbed out, both stretched their cramped bodies before walking into the encampment that was beside the landing site


    23. As his eyes became accustomed to the darkness he slowly raised his head and looked around the cramped interior of the tent


    24. Captain Ria Lee, a forty-one year old woman with close-cropped white hair, was sitting in the command chair on the cramped bridge, reading through the crew records for the third time


    25. Both men were seated in the cramped cockpit


    26. Squeezing between the others in the cramped cabin, Felix slid across to the control console beside the pilot’s chair to throw the three switches on the console, activating the dinghy’s electrical systems


    27. In the early 1940s this was still a cramped crossroads


    28. of ones and zeros, was barely visible outside the cramped space of the steeple


    29. The small sitting-room was now stiflingly cramped with four adults, their nerves stretching like piano wires


    30. OK, but where the houses were a bit cramped or the lots a little

    31. maximize the cramped floor space


    32. The cell no longer felt cramped, the darkness no longer intimidating


    33. Her arms were cramped from propping her head up all night


    34. A weary wait ensued and the men, cramped on the vessels, which were fitted and filled like cattle-ships, grew sick with the delay


    35. Setting off again they made their way up to the deck and into the small cramped cabin looking out over the bow of the craft


    36. With a deathly-pallor, shivering and cramped, he


    37. He would do anything he could to avoid long hours spent cramped in a vehicle


    38. A bit cramped isn"t it? I told her the truth


    39. The pain of the attacks and being cramped in a small box for several hours proving too much


    40. When he emerged from the cramped bathroom, a towel wrapped around his waist, Elizabeth was dressed, wearing a woolen shirt and dungarees that seemed to fit her reasonably well

    41. Seats for passengers on the transport plane were the same aluminum benches on the sides of the aircraft that paratroopers used, and Colling’s knees were cramped against one of the crates that were stacked in its center


    42. The side of me that pressed against Jade was only slightly chill, but my back and legs ached and cramped with cold


    43. “It was a little cramped were I ended up


    44. She squinted her eyes as she directed a gaze that seemed to bore through the old man’s wizened face with ease, her accusing voice ringing around the cramped study with the authority of a mythical maiden of wrath:


    45. She had not had the time to find that out before Alaric came, and now all she could feel was a cramped up knot in her stomach


    46. He laughed out loud, he laughed until tears ran down his cheeks, he laughed until his stomach cramped, he laughed all the way back to his precious chair in the control room


    47. We were introduced to cooking in cramped quarters


    48. cramped, new lifestyle called trailer living


    49. Also, the accommodations began to be cramped with our family of


    50. He joined her in the cramped shower, just so he could run his soapy hands all over her body














































    1. In their present state of improvement, those prohibitions, perhaps, without cramping their industry, or restraining it from any employment to which it would have gone of its own accord, are only impertinent badges of slavery imposed upon them, without any sufficient reason, by the groundless jealousy of the merchants and manufacturers of the mother country


    2. floor convulsed by pain and cramping; my last shovel of coal


    3. There’s also bloating and cramping to contend with, both of which also range from the mild to severe


    4. Early on Monday morning, June 28, 1954, Rosie strained to lift herself out of bed, with a lot of back pain and cramping


    5. 7 It is true that many of the objectionable stunting influences and other cramping features of these olden Jewish homes have been virtually eliminated from many of the better-regulated modern homes


    6. He did not wish to destroy the individual's concept of divine communion by establishing a precise form; neither did he desire to limit the believer's spiritual imagination by formally cramping it


    7. He approached Harry, his tiny stomach cramping with hunger and fear


    8. "There will be some cramping over the next few days


    9. pill to help with the cramping


    10. His legs had long been cramping, and he would have liked his last moments to have been at least somewhat comfortable

    11. He wanted to get a look at it so he could figure out how the three of them could contort their bodies to fit in the confessional without cramping up


    12. Anger pushed aside the cramping in his legs when he set foot on hated ground


    13. Hitting the stupid ceiling fan and light switches off, I exit the bathroom, still cramping but definitely with determination and resolve


    14. My heart is pounding, I am thankful I only have minor cramping and I know the Motrin will be kicking in soon


    15. I force myself to accept that funny feeling in my stomach is only cramping, nothing else


    16. Chamomile is a carminative with long history of use as a calming herb and may be used to ease intestinal cramping in colicky infants


    17. Caraway, like chamomile and fennel, relieves intestinal cramping and, in this way, may ease symptoms of colic


    18. Chamomile may reduce intestinal cramping and ease the irritation and inflammation associated with diarrhoea, according to test tube studies


    19. the intensity of having her face fucked and her arm and wrist were still shaking from their uncontrollable cramping


    20. A low keening wail started from the pit of his belly, his muscles cramping and twisting and flinching as the howl made its way up his windpipe and out through his clenched teeth

    21. He vomited until his stomach was empty, and sat there until the lower half of his digestive tract stopped cramping


    22. At five weeks, still in my first trimester and within the real danger zone, I’d woken up in the middle of the night to cramping and blood on the sheets


    23. Instead of elaborating, Limu let out a rumbling growl, flexing his hands as though they were cramping


    24. also been used to help prevent muscle cramping, pain, and stiffness in


    25. Her period was late this month, but she was still experiencing some light cramping and spotting


    26. attacks; confusion; Itchy scalp; pain going from the back of the head to the forehead; burning pains in the sides of the head; bloated stomach; cramping


    27. If they do not, the body begins to "give up" and this is seen in the form of cramping, muscles not responding, and the body "hitting the wall" as many marathoners call it


    28. There are many different reasons that women experience cramping during pregnancy


    29. Many women experiencing cramping become nervous about losing the foetus especially during the first trimester, but this is not always likely to take place


    30. Many women experience cramping early in their pregnancy because their body is still adjusting to carrying the child

    31. Cramping is extremely common after a great deal of physical activity


    32. Usually there are many short-term explanations that would explain the development of cramping during the early stages of pregnancy


    33. "Yes, a means of escape had come! It had been too stifling, too cramping, the burden had been too agonising


    34. Then, with their shells inverted over their heads, the icicles on the riggers standing oddly upright, their leg and arm muscles cramping in the cold air, they slid and slipped along the ice-slick dock and hobbled up the ramp to the shell house


    35. It's a most uncommonly cramping thing, as I've often told Susan, to sit on horseback and look over the hedges at the wrong thing, and not be able to put your hand to it to make it right


    36. The cramping had turned out to be nothing more than ligaments stretching to support my growing womb


    37. I felt a pang of regret when I saw Dylan’s hurt face as Angel and I walked out onto the deck, but the flock was my first priority, regardless of those fluttery feelings I kept having that were severely cramping my style


    38. A high acidic reading in the body leads to dysfunction of the digestive system causing indigestion, gaseousness, bloating, and abdominal cramping


    39. ‘Yes, a means of escape had come! It had been too stifling, too cramping, the burden had been too agonising


    1. However, I do remember feeling grotty with stomach cramps the day I took the car down to the garage for its MOT … I check back in my diary that would be the second week of October … I should come on sometime around the second week in November


    2. all hot flush and chronic stomach cramps after which I had to dash to a loo pretty smartish


    3. Sharp cramps started to


    4. I was doubled over from cramps in my legs and stomach


    5. it around my back to ease the cramps


    6. By rendering the colony produce dearer in all other countries, it lessens its consumption, and thereby cramps the industry of the colonies, and both the enjoyments and the industry of all other countries, which both enjoy less when they pay more for what they enjoy, and produce less when they get less for what they produce


    7. By rendering the produce of all other countries dearer in the colonies, it cramps in the same manner the industry of all other colonies, and both the enjoyments and the industry of the colonies


    8. Dawn was shining through the windows when I woke again, and I doubled over with severe stomach cramps


    9. it was more than cramps


    10. This makes it ideal for treating PMS-related symptoms of cramps, moodiness, and bloating

    11. Indeed only after a little more than a hundred steps Hilderich felt cramps and stiffness overtaking his aching body, especially the legs where he put much of his strength to propel himself upwards on the steps that seemed fit only for giants


    12. for the occasional bath when she had cramps, or for a long massage


    13. other week that she had menstrual cramps, and


    14. “So, how much of it did you see and hear?” he added in a somewhat milder tone as he stretched the sleep cramps out of his body


    15. somewhat milder tone as he stretched the sleep cramps out of his body


    16. cramps so strong that she was rushed to the hospital for care


    17. I could sleep naked in the snow and feel no discomfort, but the dew would give you cramps, were we to sleep in the open


    18. I rocked, that helped to take my mind off the pain yet when that was gone, the aching cramps started


    19. As the loser’s blood touched my lips, I was seized with such cramps that I thought I had been stabbed in the back by one of the Klese


    20. She stretched out on her makeshift desk bed and slept deeply for several hours, until fierce abdominal cramps and a need to retch woke her

    21. Harry, eleven, had suffered severe cramps


    22. "The cramps have subsided, and I haven’t had any bleeding at all


    23. You never know one of these days you may enjoy the thought of writer’s cramps


    24. • Use a normal (not too thin) pen to avoid writing cramps


    25. � As a serious football player, he had to deal with such cramps a lot in the past


    26. She offered to suck me off before bed, but I'd seen her hide stomach cramps all day and so I declined


    27. Peter was glad to be outside once more; for the last several hours he had become more nauseous and suffered stomach cramps


    28. Besides all that, two of the men had leg cramps from climbing up the steep terrain, and one other had blisters on both feet; that was the reasoning we used in stopping early to begin with


    29. He laid there into the night; cold and shaking, with cramps in his stomach that felt like his intestines were being ripped out


    30. Many people do not realize the discomfort and abdominal cramps a patient with constipated hard stool stuck in his rectum and anus

    31. His tummy feels bloated and constant peristaltic wave causes constant abdominal cramps and cold sweats


    32. Abdominal cramps and transient diarrhea have been reported at doses of 15-40 gms per day


    33. Taking doses that are too high can result in morning grogginess, headaches and/or abdominal cramps


    34. way to eliminate these cramps forever


    35. Most people thought they were eating dirt because they were impoverished and couldn’t get enough food, but the truth was they had so many parasites in their stomach that they got cramps


    36. He was plagued with attacks of cramps brought on by his enforced inactivity


    37. The result was a violent attack of stomach cramps


    38. The spastic flailing slowly became cramps that traveled from the back of his thighs, all the way to the base of his neck


    39. Repton once collapsed with stomach cramps whilst guzzling shrimp in Orlando


    40. Abdominal colic is a gripping pain from abdominal cramps that come and go

    41. It may be associated with abdominal cramps, fever and vomiting


    42. She looked uncomfortable under their scrutiny as she and the Legate had not actually spoken since her rescue, "The Emperor, from what you've just said, the headaches, stomach cramps - he's being poisoned


    43. Now it is as if I have cramps


    44. No cramps now but that bottomless feeling that maybe I was pregnant less than an hour ago and am no longer carrying a child, Denny’s child


    45. “Now I have cramps


    46. He was also suffering severe cramps, much like those he’d experienced five decades earlier when his appendix exploded during the miserable third round of a division title fight


    47. He read all about the numerous effects: extreme elation, alertness, self-confidence, aggression, talkativeness, loss of appetite and the withdrawal symptoms: severe cramps, deep depression, fatigue, inertia, paranoiac psychosis


    48. Even so, the unusual strain on the legs soon caused discomfort and cramps


    49. The cramps racked her limbs and the pain was excruciating


    50. muscles, resulting in menstrual cramps













































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    Synonyms for "cramp"

    cramp cramp iron muscle spasm spasm halter hamper strangle pang convulsion twinge hindrance impediment encumbrance restriction hinder restrict impede restrain object

    "cramp" definitions

    a painful and involuntary muscular contraction


    a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued


    a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together


    secure with a cramp


    prevent the progress or free movement of


    affect with or as if with a cramp


    suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle