All charley horse synonyms

noun charley horse

• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• twinge — a sudden, sharp pain: On damp days, he's often bothered by a twinge of rheumatism.
• stiffness — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
• ache — If you ache or a part of your body aches, you feel a steady, fairly strong pain.
• convulsion — If someone has convulsions, they suffer uncontrollable movements of their muscles.
• contraction — When a woman who is about to give birth has contractions, she experiences a very strong, painful tightening of the muscles of her womb.
• constipation — Constipation is a medical condition which causes people to have difficulty getting rid of solid waste from their body.
• restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
• stitch — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
• stricture — a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism: The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's style.
• circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
• kink — a twist or curl, as in a thread, rope, wire, or hair, caused by its doubling or bending upon itself.
• crick — If you have a crick in your neck or in your back, you have a pain there caused by muscles becoming stiff.
• obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• pang — a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
• cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
• wrench — to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist.
• jarring — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• knot — either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
• tweak — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
• stab — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.