Synonyms:
cramped
Meaning: constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments"
Usage examples
When she was close to it he grasped the switch-lever with cramped fingers.
The agony in her head was excruciating, and her limbs felt cramped and bruised.
We're in such cramped quarters here that you can't move without stepping on somebody's secret."
Three times during the day did he thus stretch his cramped limbs, and pray with his face to the East.
As it has ever been--sorrow and labour, lives cramped and unfulfilled, lives tempted by power, tempted by wealth, and gone to waste and folly.
There was no respite nor rest from the hard surface of the rock, and aching muscles could find no change from the cramped and perilous position.
At first my neck was cramped with looking at it, but at the end of a year I became used to it; and then we have our hours of recreation, and our holidays."
The canoe is the only means of navigation known to the Indians. But the idea of spending fifteen days cooped, cribbed, and cramped in a narrow canoe, exposed to a tropical sun and furious rains, was intolerable.