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Definition of gripe in English: gripeverb ɡrʌɪpɡraɪp 1informal no object Complain about something in a persistent, irritating way. it's no use griping about your boss or your pay with direct speech ‘Holidays make no difference to Simon,’ Pat griped Example sentencesExamples - They might gripe about money and whinge over this and that, but at the end of the day, most of us just want to believe in something good.
- Television can make a fool of us all, but it was difficult to see what the boss was griping about.
- He gripes that being a Canadian actor has limited the roles he has been offered.
- Mortgage lenders gripe that conflicting state laws make it tough for them to operate coast to coast.
- We chunter through each day, grumbling, griping and groaning.
- The secret is simple: stop griping about the public sector and start viewing it as a source of business opportunities.
- You gripe under your breath about everything because you're so sensitive.
- For nearly as long as there has been an entrepreneurial space industry, there has been griping and grousing about regulatory issues, as well as lobbying for legislation to resolve those flaws.
- Small businesses are always griping about big banks, sometimes justifiably.
- Many women's sports administrators and officials constantly gripe and complain about the lack of support they receive from sponsorship and the media.
- The stinginess of the portion left me grumbling and griping.
- She didn't complain or gripe often, but she always wanted to be part of the conversation, or always wanted someone who would listen to her.
- Because his teammates got their share of shots, no one griped under their breath about the number Iverson took.
- Even as authors griped about heavy-handed editing, readers complained that the articles were too long and too difficult - not edited enough.
- A few of you were griping at the lack of ambiance at their Jazz Fest gig earlier this summer at Club Soda, so it's off to a real club setting we go.
- They will grumble, they will gripe, they will moan about waiting lists and rotten food.
- The local evening paper lavished praise on Oasis after their opening night in Aberdeen, but griped it would have been better value for money if the band talked more to the audience.
- For weeks I griped and complained about the fact that my boxes hadn't arrived from England yet.
- ‘Everything was fine until you walked in,’ he griped some, before turning back to the communications panel.
- We, nevertheless, inevitably find things about which to gripe and complain.
- He also told me that I need to apply myself to the main work of the group as people have been griping to him about my use of my laptop at work.
- I griped under my breath as I pulled the covers up to her shoulders.
- They were griping to the press last week, saying that if they were in trouble, they would have called the defence force and not the MPs.
- The much-anticipated finger-pointing began after the home loss - with players griping about the way teammates complain to the officials, playing time and chemistry.
- Are you the sort of player who gripes and complains all the time about your putting?
Synonyms protest, grumble, moan, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, lodge a complaint, make a complaint, make a fuss complain, grumble, moan, groan, protest, whine, bleat 2usually as adjective gripingwith object Affect with gastric or intestinal pain. Example sentencesExamples - Prune juice started griping my stomach in 2 hours.
- Nowadays an infusion of coriander is recommended for relieving flatulence, bloating and griping pains, as well as for suppressing the lingering smell of garlic.
- Sometimes the griping pain was so severe that she screamed and tossed in the bed.
- It started to gripe my stomach too.
3archaic with object Grasp tightly; clutch. Hilyard griped his dagger Synonyms grasp, clutch, hold, clasp, grasp hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, latch on to, grab, seize, clench, cling to, catch, catch at, get one's hands on, pluck 4Nautical
with object Secure (a boat) with gripes. Example sentencesExamples - The boat must be fully griped in at the davits and the harbour stop pins must be out.
5Sailing
no object (of a ship) turn to face the wind despite the efforts of the helmsman. Example sentencesExamples - I had occasion to observe the vessel griped to windward considerably.
noun ɡrʌɪpɡraɪp 1informal A minor complaint. my only gripe is the size of the page numbers Example sentencesExamples - There are some minor gripes I do have with the game play.
- These are all relatively minor gripes, admittedly.
- Is it permitted to air a few gripes?
- Though it seemed a legitimate gripe, complaining did no good.
- Apart from English gripes about the weather, the main source of criticism was the cost of holidaying in Scotland, with one in three continental tourists complaining about value for money.
- But if the only gripe you can have about watching two discs of soccer highlights is that the music sucks, it's not a bad complaint.
- I still have a gripe with journalists who consistently refuse to refer to documents like those above when constructing their various conspiracy theories.
- But these are minor gripes and most people won't notice or care about it.
- But all gripes aside, it is still an effective and moving portrait.
- But minor gripes aside, this is a great, original film.
- Really, my biggest gripe is the lack of extras on this DVD, especially a commentary track.
- This is not a moan or a gripe but something that's been puzzling me of late.
- Of the five local opinions sought on the operations of the Council, traffic and parking gripes predominated.
- Privatisation was one of the group's main gripes, according to the memorandum.
- The first reaction was the violence and what you see in the media but the most telling aspect is that a couple of people said the majority of the protesters have legitimate gripes.
- Passengers pointed to overcrowding, delays, poor conditions and frequency as their main gripes.
- If we had a minor gripe it was certainly not with the food but with the service.
- At present my biggest gripe is the lack of facilities.
- The main menu is fine, but I have few minor gripes about the control setup.
- Our minor gripes were far out-weighed by some superb service and good quality food.
Synonyms complaint, grumble, moan, groan, grievance, objection, protest, whine 2mass noun Gastric or intestinal pain; colic. seeing your tiny baby suffering with wind and gripe Example sentencesExamples - Andres was suffering from gripe and sinus problems for a couple weeks.
- When I brought him home he slept and then he started to cry loudly and I thought he had gripe.
- Plenty of time for late night blogging while coping with teething, chronic gripe and insomnia from 4am feeds.
3archaic An act of grasping something tightly. he seized me by the arms with a rude gripe Example sentencesExamples - Holding me with a strong gripe by the cord that tied my hands, he with many oaths threatened to kill me immediately if I would not be quiet.
- Do we know that there is a possibility, on any terms, of unclasping the firm gripe of this little Hand, which was laid upon me before I came into the world?
Synonyms grasp, hold, clutch, clasp, clench 4gripesNautical
Lashings securing a boat in its place on deck or in davits. Example sentencesExamples - As soon as we lowered the starboard action boat to the next deck the gripes of the boat caught and we had to cut them with an axe.
- The whole operation is performed by one man only in the boat, who, by simply paying off a rope, unlashes and frees the boat from the ship's gripes.
Derivatives noun But that's not what the gripers are really complaining about. Example sentencesExamples - As a manager, you should remember to listen to the good performers and to downplay comments from the gripers.
- Many more good things can happen if there are fewer gripers and more positive thinkers.
- Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth.
- You can silence the gripers, but they'll come back later and undermine the effort.
Origin Old English grīpan 'grasp, clutch', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grijpen, German greifen 'seize', also to grip and grope. sense 2 of the verb dates from the 17th century; sense 1 of the verb, of US origin, dates from the 1930s. Rhymes hype, mistype, pipe, ripe, sipe, skype, slype, snipe, stripe, swipe, tripe, type, wipe Definition of gripe in US English: gripeverbɡrīpɡraɪp 1informal no object Express a complaint or grumble about something, especially something trivial. with direct speech “Holidays make no difference to Simon,” Pat griped no object they gripe about the busywork Example sentencesExamples - We chunter through each day, grumbling, griping and groaning.
- He also told me that I need to apply myself to the main work of the group as people have been griping to him about my use of my laptop at work.
- The secret is simple: stop griping about the public sector and start viewing it as a source of business opportunities.
- Are you the sort of player who gripes and complains all the time about your putting?
- She didn't complain or gripe often, but she always wanted to be part of the conversation, or always wanted someone who would listen to her.
- Even as authors griped about heavy-handed editing, readers complained that the articles were too long and too difficult - not edited enough.
- The much-anticipated finger-pointing began after the home loss - with players griping about the way teammates complain to the officials, playing time and chemistry.
- Because his teammates got their share of shots, no one griped under their breath about the number Iverson took.
- You gripe under your breath about everything because you're so sensitive.
- He gripes that being a Canadian actor has limited the roles he has been offered.
- For weeks I griped and complained about the fact that my boxes hadn't arrived from England yet.
- Mortgage lenders gripe that conflicting state laws make it tough for them to operate coast to coast.
- ‘Everything was fine until you walked in,’ he griped some, before turning back to the communications panel.
- Small businesses are always griping about big banks, sometimes justifiably.
- They might gripe about money and whinge over this and that, but at the end of the day, most of us just want to believe in something good.
- We, nevertheless, inevitably find things about which to gripe and complain.
- For nearly as long as there has been an entrepreneurial space industry, there has been griping and grousing about regulatory issues, as well as lobbying for legislation to resolve those flaws.
- I griped under my breath as I pulled the covers up to her shoulders.
- A few of you were griping at the lack of ambiance at their Jazz Fest gig earlier this summer at Club Soda, so it's off to a real club setting we go.
- The local evening paper lavished praise on Oasis after their opening night in Aberdeen, but griped it would have been better value for money if the band talked more to the audience.
- They will grumble, they will gripe, they will moan about waiting lists and rotten food.
- Television can make a fool of us all, but it was difficult to see what the boss was griping about.
- They were griping to the press last week, saying that if they were in trouble, they would have called the defence force and not the MPs.
- The stinginess of the portion left me grumbling and griping.
- Many women's sports administrators and officials constantly gripe and complain about the lack of support they receive from sponsorship and the media.
Synonyms protest, grumble, moan, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, lodge a complaint, make a complaint, make a fuss complain, grumble, moan, groan, protest, whine, bleat 2with object Affect with gastric or intestinal pain. it gripes my belly like a green apple then the griping pains started Example sentencesExamples - It started to gripe my stomach too.
- Nowadays an infusion of coriander is recommended for relieving flatulence, bloating and griping pains, as well as for suppressing the lingering smell of garlic.
- Sometimes the griping pain was so severe that she screamed and tossed in the bed.
- Prune juice started griping my stomach in 2 hours.
3archaic with object Grasp tightly; clutch. Hilyard griped his dagger Synonyms grasp, clutch, hold, clasp, grasp hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, latch on to, grab, seize, clench, cling to, catch, catch at, get one's hands on, pluck 4Nautical
with object Secure (a boat) with gripes. Example sentencesExamples - The boat must be fully griped in at the davits and the harbour stop pins must be out.
5Sailing
no object (of a ship) turn to face the wind in spite of the helm. Example sentencesExamples - I had occasion to observe the vessel griped to windward considerably.
nounɡrīpɡraɪp 1informal A complaint, especially a trivial one. his biggest gripe is that he has lost his sense of privacy Example sentencesExamples - There are some minor gripes I do have with the game play.
- The main menu is fine, but I have few minor gripes about the control setup.
- The first reaction was the violence and what you see in the media but the most telling aspect is that a couple of people said the majority of the protesters have legitimate gripes.
- But minor gripes aside, this is a great, original film.
- Privatisation was one of the group's main gripes, according to the memorandum.
- At present my biggest gripe is the lack of facilities.
- Of the five local opinions sought on the operations of the Council, traffic and parking gripes predominated.
- These are all relatively minor gripes, admittedly.
- But these are minor gripes and most people won't notice or care about it.
- Though it seemed a legitimate gripe, complaining did no good.
- Is it permitted to air a few gripes?
- But all gripes aside, it is still an effective and moving portrait.
- Our minor gripes were far out-weighed by some superb service and good quality food.
- I still have a gripe with journalists who consistently refuse to refer to documents like those above when constructing their various conspiracy theories.
- Apart from English gripes about the weather, the main source of criticism was the cost of holidaying in Scotland, with one in three continental tourists complaining about value for money.
- Really, my biggest gripe is the lack of extras on this DVD, especially a commentary track.
- This is not a moan or a gripe but something that's been puzzling me of late.
- But if the only gripe you can have about watching two discs of soccer highlights is that the music sucks, it's not a bad complaint.
- Passengers pointed to overcrowding, delays, poor conditions and frequency as their main gripes.
- If we had a minor gripe it was certainly not with the food but with the service.
Synonyms complaint, grumble, moan, groan, grievance, objection, protest, whine 2usually gripesGastric or intestinal pain; colic. Example sentencesExamples - Plenty of time for late night blogging while coping with teething, chronic gripe and insomnia from 4am feeds.
- When I brought him home he slept and then he started to cry loudly and I thought he had gripe.
- Andres was suffering from gripe and sinus problems for a couple weeks.
3archaic An act of grasping something tightly. Example sentencesExamples - Holding me with a strong gripe by the cord that tied my hands, he with many oaths threatened to kill me immediately if I would not be quiet.
- Do we know that there is a possibility, on any terms, of unclasping the firm gripe of this little Hand, which was laid upon me before I came into the world?
Synonyms grasp, hold, clutch, clasp, clench 4gripesNautical
Lashings securing a boat in its place on deck or in davits. Example sentencesExamples - The whole operation is performed by one man only in the boat, who, by simply paying off a rope, unlashes and frees the boat from the ship's gripes.
- As soon as we lowered the starboard action boat to the next deck the gripes of the boat caught and we had to cut them with an axe.
Origin Old English grīpan ‘grasp, clutch’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grijpen, German greifen ‘seize’, also to grip and grope. gripe (sense 2 of the verb) dates from the 17th century; gripe (sense 1 of the verb), of US origin, dates from the 1930s. |