'cramp' is an acceptable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a type of painful, involuntary muscle contraction. For example: "My leg started getting a cramp halfway through the race, so I had to stop running."
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Hodgson is confident Gary Cahill, who was substituted near the end and applied ice to an ankle, will be fit for the game against Switzerland – ranked ninth in the world to England's 20th and Norway's 53rd – with John Stones, on his first start, having suffered cramp late on.
He calls for somebody to give him a stretch and rid him of his cramp.
He looks to be through on goal, but has the ball taken off his toe by a block from Halliche, who is so stricken with cramp he can't even kick it away.
Bastian Schweinsteiger of Germany receives treatment for cramp.
A bizarre, implausible but widespread mass cramp in typing fingers?
Updated at 11.11pm BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.10pm BST23 10 ET13: Bastian Schweinsteiger shows his human side, retreating to the touchline with cramp.
"I always ask why," says Popper: "So if someone gets cramp in the pool, for example, I'll ask: 'Did you go for a run today?
When I ponder my decomposing professional life: the late payment, underpayment, nonpayment and general all-round personal and intellectual violation it inevitably involves, surely my knuckles cramp with cruel and unusual bewilderment or homicidal tetchiness?
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Yet with public debt expected to top 95% of GDP next year, economic growth fragile and the overall tax take inching up to 46.1% of GDP, the fifth consecutive yearly increase, France is not out of the danger zone yet.As agreed with the European Commission, and in a bid not to cramp growth, France will ease the pace of deficit reduction next year.
