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crampingverbpresent participle of cramp to create difficulty for the work or activity ofhaving to constantly entertain guests at the summer cottage was really cramping my writing efforts clogging, embarrassing, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, short-circuiting, stymieing, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up) balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restrainingbinding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying(or tieing)arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retardingbarricading, blockading, blocking, roadblockingbogging (down), miringchoking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocatingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwartingderailing, disrupting, sabotagingmuzzling, repressing, suppressingconfining, hedging (in), hemming (in) cramping one's style, giving a hard time aiding, assisting, facilitating, helping clearing, making way, opening, unclogging, unplugging, unstoppingfreeing, liberating, releasing, untying(or untieing)loosening, smoothingencouraging, furthering, promoting |