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Cramp

That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

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Broader term 19

Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Bound 76% connected

of Bind

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Clamp 76% connected

Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

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Clinch 76% connected

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

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Confine 76% connected

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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Fasten 76% connected

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Limit 76% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Restrict 76% connected

Restricted.

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Secure 76% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Slip 76% connected

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Sustain 76% connected

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

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Symptom 76% connected

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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Throttle 76% connected

The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

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Trammel 76% connected

A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

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Crick 76% connected

The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

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Kink 76% connected

A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.

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Opisthotonos 76% connected

A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

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Rick 76% connected

A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.

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Tenesmus 76% connected

An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the…

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Trismus 76% connected

The lockjaw.

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Twitch 76% connected

To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand;…

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Twitching 76% connected

of Twitch

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Vellication 76% connected

The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.

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Bond 74% connected

That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a m…

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Bond 74% connected

That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a m…

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Synonym 5

Cramp iron 92% connected

See Cramp, n., 2.

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Halter 92% connected

One who halts or limps; a cripple.

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Hamper 92% connected

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which…

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Spasm 92% connected

An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.

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Strangle 92% connected

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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