Sudden muscle tightness that may cause a marathon runner to stop Crossword Clue

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Sudden muscle tightness that may cause a marathon runner to stop Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. prevent the progress or free movement of
2. affect with or as if with a cramp
(noun)
1. a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
2. a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

TIGHTNESS (noun)
1. the spatial property of being crowded together
2. extreme stinginess
SUDDEN (adjective)
1. happening without warning or in a short space of time

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