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gripe

[grahyp]
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verb (used without object), griped, grip·ing.

verb (used with object), griped, grip·ing.

noun

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objection, grievance, ache, moan, squawk, nag, carp, grumble, mutter, murmur, illness, pain, distress, groan, indisposition, pang, aching, affliction, disorder, infirmity

Origin of gripe

1350–1400; Middle English gripen, Old English grīpan; cognate with Dutch grijpen, German griefen; see grip, grope
Related formsgrip·er, noungripe·ful, adjectivegrip·ing·ly, adverb
Can be confusedgrip gripe grippe

Synonyms for gripe

1. whine, mutter, carp, rail, bellyache.
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Examples from the Web for griped

Contemporary Examples of griped

Historical Examples of griped

  • He laid hold of me by the throat, and griped me with a quivering grasp.

    Wilfrid Cumbermede

    George MacDonald

  • Thus had Amilcare been sold by his own purchase, and thus Grifone griped in his own springe.

    Little Novels of Italy

    Maurice Henry Hewlett

  • They went feverish and gaunt, with parched mouths and griped stomachs.

    Captain Ravenshaw

    Robert Neilson Stephens

  • The others, according to the quantity they had taken, were griped also.

    Girl Scouts in the Rockies

    Lillian Elizabeth Roy

  • Now he griped at the beast between the ears and held him off, so that he got not at him to bite.

    The Story of Grettir The Strong

    Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris

British Dictionary definitions for griped

gripe

verb

(intr) 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
(intr) nautical (of a ship) to tend to come up into the wind in spite of the helm
archaic to clutch; grasp
(tr) archaic to afflict

noun

(usually plural) a sudden intense pain in the intestines; colic
informal a complaint or grievance
rare
  1. the act of gripping
  2. a firm grip
  3. a device that grips
(in plural) nautical the lashings that secure a boat
Derived Formsgriper, noungripingly, adverb

Word Origin for gripe

Old English grīpan; related to Gothic greipan, Old High German grīfan to seize, Lithuanian greibiu
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Word Origin and History for griped

gripe

v.

Old English gripan "grasp at, lay hold, attack, take, seek to get hold of," from Proto-Germanic *gripanan (cf. Old Saxon gripan, Old Norse gripa, Dutch grijpen, Gothic greipan, Old High German grifan, German greifen "to seize"), from PIE root *ghreib- "to grip" (cf. Lithuanian griebiu "to seize"). Figurative sense of "complain, grouse" is first attested 1932, probably from earlier meaning "gripping pain in the bowels" (c.1600; cf. bellyache). Related: Griped; griping.

gripe

n.

late 14c., from gripe (v.). Figurative sense by 1934.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Medicine definitions for griped

gripe

[grīp]

v.

To have sharp pains in the bowels.

n.

gripes Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.
A firm hold; a grasp.
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