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[grahyp]

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verb (used without object)

Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.

to suffer pain in the bowels.

Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to tend to come into the wind; to be ardent.

verb (used with object)

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.

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Nautical. to secure (a lifeboat) to a deck or against a pudding boom on davits.

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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.

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15.

Nautical.

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.

16.

a handle, hilt, etc.

17.

Usually, gripes. Pathology. an intermittent spasmodic pain in the bowels.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English gripen, Old English grīpan; cognate with Dutch grijpen, German griefen; see grip, grope

Related forms

grip·er, noun

gripe·ful, adjective

grip·ing·ly, adverb

Can be confused: grip, gripe, grippe.

Synonyms
1. whine, mutter, carp, rail, bellyache.

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Example Sentences

It appeared on the list in the fourth spot, between treachery and gripe.

Most gripe sessions in the college-faculty lunchroom these days include complaints that today's students are addicted to praise.

What inveterate wearers sometimes gripe about is the niggling pain.

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It appeared on the list in the fourth spot, between treachery and gripe.

Most gripe sessions in the college-faculty lunchroom these days include complaints that today's students are addicted to praise.

What inveterate wearers sometimes gripe about is the niggling pain.

One big gripe people have about hybrids is they cost a few grand more than similar conventional models.

But an old gripe against an aged woman who had raised him keeps bothering him.

And many still gripe about one or another perceived.

Days after the crash, many continue to gripe openly about the government's response, and to doubt anything officials say.

But far be it from me to use this pulpit to lodge a petty personal gripe.

The surveys in which employees can gripe anonymously to management about what needs improvement are in place.

Our correspondents in this group have no real comment on our articles but want to gripe about something.

And they gripe about the clone troopers' aggressive tactics.

Haters might get a bit more traction with the gripe that official stores still don't carry every track ever recorded.

Administration officials gripe about other administration officials.

My gripe is not only about student's expectations but the administration's expectations in the community college environment.

Owners gripe that a government make-work scheme lures away their workers.

But our biggest gripe with this cooktop actually is compatibility.

International comparisons are particularly problematic because of cultural differences in the propensity to gripe or gloat.

If you can back up those fails with reasonable evidence, he shouldn't have a gripe and you should be fine.

The movement has gotten a great deal of attention, despite the absence of a clear objective, gripe or solution.

The amazing part about this gripe is that it could be easily remedied.

His principal gripe is against his trumpeteers, who always end their fanfares with a hot break.

Instead of listening to professors gripe about glitches in.

Companies gripe that the strong yen may push them to move operations overseas.

My biggest gripe with the magazine is about the stories that center on lore.

Such design lapses were a tradition, along with a tacit agreement among neighbors to gripe behind closed doors.

Everybody has a gripe when it comes to how certain words or phrases are used, especially those of us in the teaching/writing biz.

He used to gripe that though his government had nationalised the banks, it had not nationalised the bankers.

My final gripe is the lack of interactivity in the pieces currently available.

Far more entertaining are the barbershop conversations in which ordinary men jovially gripe about their honeys.

You're ignoring substantive evidence of a national problem to gripe about the style of the post.

Banks might gripe about these comparisons were they not battling so hard for hedge-fund business.

Asked in the car-phone interview about a minor gripe of some reporters.

My gripe is that the men's styles stay available but women's don't.

Banks also gripe about poor feedback from the authorities.

But my gripe with the economist is not about the topic it wrote about, its about the fact that it lied for more sympathy perhaps.

People wouldn't gripe about new surcharges and would be happy with discounts.

Also, voting give you the right to gripe about the results.

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World English Dictionary

gripe (ɡraɪp)

—vb
1.	informal (intr) to complain, esp in a persistent nagging manner
2.	to cause sudden intense pain in the intestines of (a person) or (of a person) to experience this pain
3.	(intr) nautical (of a ship) to tend to come up into the wind in spite of the helm
4.	archaic to clutch; grasp
5.	archaic (tr) to afflict

—n
6.	(usually plural) a sudden intense pain in the intestines; colic
7.	informal a complaint or grievance
8.	rare
	a. the act of gripping
	b. a firm grip
	c. a device that grips
9.	(in plural) nautical the lashings that secure a boat

[Old English grīpan; related to Gothic greipan, Old High German grīfan to seize, Lithuanian greibiu]

'griper

—n

'gripingly

—*adv*

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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"

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Medical Dictionary

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