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Definition of cramp : A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, etc.

Synonyms:

suffocate, stifle, impediment, encumbrance, strangle, muffle, cramp iron, gag, strangulate, throttle, paroxysm, muscle spasm, halter, repress, shoot, hindrance, restriction, smother

hamper, invalidate, disable, tamper, dull, hobble, benumb, neutralize, deaden, weaken, abrogate, hinder, botch, cripple, undermine, scotch, hamstring, vitiate, incapacitate, prostrate, handicap, sap, impair, anesthetize, enfeeble, disarm, screw up, stun, paralyze, lame, stupefy

hurt, crick, painfulness, earache, irritation, sore, suffering, back-ache, burn, torture, throe, grief, agony, stab, sting, irritate, ache, pang, rack, migraine, headache, malaise, discomfort, infliction, gripe, chafing, spasm, throb, wound, chafe, smarting, suffer, pain, inflame, afflict, wrench, anguish, stitch, agonize, torment, affliction, bruise, inflammation, misery, bite, smart, injury, distress

restrict, crimp, bung, interrupt, foul, frustrate, drag, burden, choke, snarl, entangle, plug, curb, catch, resist, tangle, check, stay, thwart, mire, dam, jam, brake, snag, complicate, clog, constrain, restrain, encumber, bottleneck, entrap, obstruct, oppose, inhibit, impede, delay, deter, detain, baffle, counter, bar, congest, fetter, stop, block, constipate

Usage examples:

• Exhausted from cold and fatigue, a man called Rubso, a Christian convert, was seized with cramp. - "An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet", A. Henry Savage Landor.
• Desmond, who, by this time was getting cramp in the arms from stretching upwards and had made his hands black with dust, pulled out a couple of volumes at hazard from the set and found them real books like the rest. - "Okewood of the Secret Service", Valentine Williams.
• In the end he would fall asleep over his papers, wake with a cramp about two o'clock, and creak irritably to a lonely bed. - "The Haunted Bookshop", Christopher Morley.