cramped
adjective
affected with a cramp in a muscle or muscles.
crampedness
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a word derived from
cramped.
Example Sentences
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The crampedness of the locality aggravates the evil, and it can only be in the rains which channel and furrow the rocky hillsides that Boondi is at all swept out.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
Out of this crampedness of Russian literature by government developed that virtue of its masters, which with their sincerity and simplicity, or moderation, forms a most beautiful trinity of graces; I mean their freedom.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Ivan Panin
Bordman put it in the boat, disapproving of the crampedness of the craft.
From Sand Doom by Murray Leinster
But often there came into her mind the wonder, how the cell was built, and she could feel the horror of the crampedness, as something very real.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
