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gripe

  [grahyp] verb, griped, grip⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
2. to suffer pain in the bowels.
3. Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to tend to come into the wind; to be ardent.
–verb (used with object)
4. to seize and hold firmly; grip; grasp; clutch.
5. to produce pain in (the bowels) as if by constriction.
6. to distress or oppress.
7. to annoy or irritate: His tone of voice gripes me.
8. to grasp or clutch, as a miser.
9. Nautical. to secure (a lifeboat) to a deck or against a pudding boom on davits.
–noun
10. the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
11. Informal. a nagging complaint.
12. a firm hold; clutch.
13. a grasp; hold; control.
14. something that grips or clutches; a claw or grip.
15. Nautical.
a. a lashing or chain by which a boat is secured to a deck or in position on davits.
b. Also called gripe piece. a curved timber connecting the stem or cutwater of a wooden hull with the keel.
c. the exterior angle or curve formed by this piece; forefoot.
d. the forward end of the dished keel of a metal hull.
16. a handle, hilt, etc.
17. Usually, gripes. Pathology. an intermittent spasmodic pain in the bowels.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME gripen, OE grīpan; c. D grijpen, G griefen; see grip, grope

Related forms:
griper, noun
gripeful, adjective
grip⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. whine, mutter, carp, rail, bellyache.
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gripe   (grīp)   
v.   griped, grip·ing, gripes

v.   intr.

  1. Informal To complain naggingly or petulantly; grumble.

  2. To have sharp pains in the bowels.

v.   tr.

  1. Informal To irritate; annoy: Her petty complaints really gripe me.

  2. To cause sharp pain in the bowels of.

  3. To grasp; seize.

  4. To oppress or afflict.

n.  

  1. Informal A complaint.

  2. gripes Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.

  3. A firm hold; a grasp.

  4. A grip; a handle.


[Middle English gripen, to seize, from Old English grīpan.]
grip'er n.
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Word Origin & History

gripe 
O.E. gripan "grasp at, lay hold," from P.Gmc. *gripanan (cf. O.S. gripan, O.N. gripa, Du. grijpen, Goth. greifen "to seize"), from PIE base *ghrib- (cf. Lith. griebiu "to seize"). Figurative sense of "complain, grouse" is first attested 1932, probably from earlier meaning "gripping pain in the bowels" (1601).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1gripe
Pronunciation: 'grIp
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: griped; grip·ing
transitive senses
: to cause pinching and spasmodic pain in the bowels of gripe intransitive senses
: to experience gripes

Main Entry: 2gripe
Function: noun
: a pinching spasmodic intestinal pain —usually used in plural
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

gripe (grīp)
v. griped, grip·ing, gripes
To have sharp pains in the bowels. n.

  1. gripes Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.

  2. A firm hold; a grasp.

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