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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gripe /graɪp/USA pronunciation v., griped, grip•ing, n. v. [no object] - [Informal.]to complain naggingly;
grumble:soldiers griping about mess-hall food.
n. [countable] - Informal Termsa nagging complaint:I've got a few gripes.
- PathologyUsually, the gripes. [plural] spasmodic pain in the intestines.
grip•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gripe (grīp),USA pronunciation v., griped, grip•ing, n. v.i. - [Informal.]to complain naggingly or constantly;
grumble. - to suffer pain in the bowels.
- Naval Terms[Naut.](of a sailing vessel) to tend to come into the wind;
to be ardent.
v.t. - to seize and hold firmly;
grip;
grasp;
clutch. - to produce pain in (the bowels) as if by constriction.
- to distress or oppress.
- to annoy or irritate:His tone of voice gripes me.
- to grasp or clutch, as a miser.
- Naval Terms[Naut.]to secure (a lifeboat) to a deck or against a pudding boom on davits.
n. - the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
- Informal Termsa nagging complaint.
- a firm hold;
clutch. - a grasp;
hold;
control. - something that grips or clutches;
a claw or grip. - Naval Terms[Naut.]
- a lashing or chain by which a boat is secured to a deck or in position on davits.
- Also called gripe′ piece′. a curved timber connecting the stem or cutwater of a wooden hull with the keel.
- the exterior angle or curve formed by this piece;
forefoot. - the forward end of the dished keel of a metal hull.
- a handle, hilt, etc.
- PathologyUsually, gripes. an intermittent spasmodic pain in the bowels.
- 1350–1400; Middle English gripen, Old English grīpan; cognate with Dutch grijpen, German griefen; see grip, grope
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged whine, mutter, carp, rail, bellyache.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: gripe /ɡraɪp/ vb - (intransitive) informal to complain, esp in a persistent nagging manner
- to cause sudden intense pain in the intestines of (a person) or (of a person) to experience this pain
- archaic to clutch; grasp
- (transitive) archaic to afflict
n - (usually plural) a sudden intense pain in the intestines; colic
- informal a complaint or grievance
- rare the act of gripping
- a firm grip
- a device that grips
Etymology: Old English grīpan; related to Gothic greipan, Old High German grīfan to seize, Lithuanian greibiuˈgriper n |