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cramped
1[ krampt ]
cramped
2[ krampt ]
adjective
- confined or severely limited in space:
cramped closets.
- (of handwriting) with characters written small and crowded together.
- (of a style of writing) hard to understand; crabbed.
cramped
/ kræmpt /
adjective
- closed in; restricted
- (esp of handwriting) small and irregular; difficult to read
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- crampedness noun
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Example Sentences
We were exposing the people of Bettiah to the unprotected dimensions of their cramped lives.
After a day-long drive with three young children, we emerged from our minivan cramped, cranky, and dusty with junk food.
Pro-Sisi residents in the cramped, narrow streets are welcoming as long as only their perspective is being heard.
Her sister, Magda, is quarantined after catching tuberculosis aboard their cramped vessel, and her aunt is nowhere to be found.
But while Paul may broaden his rhetoric, his outreach is cramped.
She was putting her papers tidy again with calm fingers, while his own were almost cramped with the energy of suppressed desire.
I write a poor cramped hand, which I can hardly make out myself, and know very little about figures.
Not here, not in these cramped quarters, but out in the open let our meeting take place.
A little while after that they stopped at a water station, and most of the passengers got off to stretch their cramped limbs.
He shook his cramped limbs with as little ceremony as if Kano were a shrub, and then turned, with the evident intention of flight.
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