Cramp vs Obstruct - What's the difference?
cramp | obstruct |
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
* Sir T. More
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
* L'Estrange
* Cowper
A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
To prohibit movement or expression.
* Layard
To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
* Ford
To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
(by extension) To bind together; to unite.
* Burke
To form on a cramp.
To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.
To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder: obstructed my progress.
To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
As verbs the difference between cramp and obstruct
is that cramp is (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably while obstruct is to block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.As a noun cramp
is a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.cramp
English
(wikipedia cramp)Noun
(en noun)- The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
- A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
- crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
Derived terms
* brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's crampVerb
(en verb)- You're cramping my style.
- The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
- You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
- when the gout cramps my joints
- The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
- to cramp boot legs
