Decrease and Cramp

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

cramp

A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
- synonyms: spasm, muscle spasm
A clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued.
A strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together.
- synonyms: cramp iron

Secure with a cramp.
- usage: "cramp the wood"
Prevent the progress or free movement of.
- usage: "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- synonyms: hamper, halter, strangle
Affect with or as if with a cramp.
Suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle. .

(v.t.) to bind together; to unite.
(v.t.) To fasten or hold with or as with, a cramp.
(n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
(v.t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
(v.t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
(n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
(n.) Knotty; difficult.
(n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
(v.t.) To afflict with cramp.
(n.) A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, etc.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary