Meaning of ऐंठन in English

An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.
Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion.
Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
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.
A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
to bind together; to unite.
To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
To afflict with cramp.
Knotty; difficult.
of Cramp
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
To bend, turn, or wind.
A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.
An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.
An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.
The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.
A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.
A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.