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Definition of 'gripe'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) gripe
Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.

2.  gripe
to suffer pain in the bowels.

3. (v.t.) gripe
to seize and hold firmly; grasp; clutch.

4.  gripe
to produce pain in (the bowels) as if by constriction.

5.  gripe
to irritate:
His tone gripes me.

6.  gripe
to distress or oppress.

7. (n.) gripe
the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.

8.  gripe
Informal. a nagging complaint.

9.  gripe
a firm hold; clutch.

10.  gripe
grasp; hold; control.

11.  gripe
something that grips or clutches; a claw or grip.

12.  gripe
a handle or hilt.

13.  gripe
Usu., gripes. an intermittent spasmodic pain in the bowels.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME; OE grīpan, c. OS grīpan, OHG grīfan, ON grīpa, Go greipan; cf. grip , grope)

Definition of 'gripe'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawk
informal terms for objecting
"I have a gripe about the service here"

2. (verb) gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
complain
"What was he hollering about?"

Definition of 'gripe'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) gripe
a vulture; the griffin

2. (noun) gripe
grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch

3. (noun) gripe
that on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword

4. (noun) gripe
a device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel

5. (noun) gripe
oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty

6. (noun) gripe
pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural

7. (noun) gripe
the piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot

8. (noun) gripe
the compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind

9. (noun) gripe
an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging

10. (verb) gripe
to catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch

11. (verb) gripe
to seize and hold fast; to embrace closely

12. (verb) gripe
to pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances

13. (verb) gripe
to clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe

14. (verb) gripe
to suffer griping pains

15. (verb) gripe
to tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm

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