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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
grip′er, n. gripe′ful, adj. grip′ing•ly, adv. - 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged whine, mutter, carp, rail, bellyache.
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