cramp vs kink

cramp and kink both are nouns.

cramp and kink both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cramp	Yes	No	Yes	No
kink	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, kink is a hyponym of cramp; that is, kink is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cramp:

cramp: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
kink: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

Other hyponyms of cramp include charley-horse, charley horse, graphospasm, writer's cramp, blepharospasm, crick, rick, wrick, myoclonus, opisthotonos, twitch, twitching, vellication, tenesmus, trismus.

cramp (noun)	kink (noun)
a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together	a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued	an eccentric idea
a painful and involuntary muscular contraction	a person with unusual sexual tastes
	a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
	a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

cramp (verb)	kink (verb)
suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle	form a curl, curve, or kink
affect with or as if with a cramp	curl tightly
prevent the progress or free movement of
secure with a cramp

Difference between cramp and kink

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