Definitions for Gripe
graɪpgripe

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawkverb

   informal terms for objecting

   "I have a gripe about the service here"

2. gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, hollerverb

   complain

   "What was he hollering about?"

GCIDERate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Gripeverb

   (Naut.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm. R. H. Dana, Jr.2. to complain

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. gripenoun

   A complaint; a petty concern.

2. gripenoun

   The name of a specific wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.

3. gripeverb

   To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).

4. gripeverb

   To seize, grasp.

5. gripeverb

   To complain; to whine.

6. Etymology: gripan, from grīpanan. Cognate with Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Swedish gripa, Danish gribe.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gripenoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Grasp; hold; seizure of the hand or paw.

   Therefore still on high
   He over him did hold his cruel claws,
   Threatning with greedy gripe to do him dy. Fairy Queen.

   They put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
   Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand. William Shakespeare, Macb.

   Should I
   Slaver with lips, as common as the stairs
   That mount the Capitol; join gripes with hands
   Made hardy with hourly falshood as with labour. William Shakespeare.

   He gave me his hand,
   And, with a feeble gripe, says, dear, my lord,
   Command my service. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   I fell; and with my weight the helm constrain’d,
   Was drawn along, which yet my gripe retain’d. John Dryden, Æn.

   2. Squeeze; pressure.

   Fir’d with this thought, at once he strain’d the breast;
   ’Tis true, the harden’d breast resists the gripe,
   And the cold lips return a kiss unripe. John Dryden, Fables.

   3. Oppression; crushing power.

   I take my cause
   Out of the gripes of cruel men, and give it
   To a most noble judge, the king my master. William Shakespeare, H. VIII.

   4. Affliction; pinching distress.

   Adam, at the news
   Heart-struck with chilling gripe of sorrow stood,
   That all his senses bound! John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xi.

   Can’st thou bear cold and hunger? Can these limbs,
   Fram’d for the tender offices of love,
   Endure the bitter gripes of smarting poverty? Thomas Otway.

   5. [In the plural.] Belly-ach; colick.

   In the jaundice the choler is wanting; and the icterical have a great sourness and gripes, with windiness. John Floyer.

2. To GRIPEverb

   Etymology: greipan, Gothick; gripan, Saxon; grijpen, Dutch; gripp, Scottish.

   1. To hold with the fingers closed; to grasp; to press with the fingers.

   He that speaks doth gripe the hearer’s wrist,
   Whilst he that hears makes fearful action
   With wrinkl’d brows. William Shakespeare, King John.

   He seiz’d the shining bough with griping hold,
   And rent away with ease the ling’ring gold. John Dryden, Æn.

   2. [ Gripper, French.] To catch eagerly; to seize.

   A wond’rous way it for this lady wrought,
   From lion’s claws to pluck the griped prey. Fairy Queen.

   You took occasion to be quickly woo’d
   To gripe the gen’ral sway into your hands. William Shakespeare, Hen. IV.

   3. To close; to clutch.

   Unlucky Welsted! thy unfeeling master,
   The more thou ticklest, gripes his hand the faster. Alexander Pope.

   4. To pinch; to press; to squeeze.

   And first the dame came rushing through the wood;
   And next the famish’d hounds that sought their food,
   And grip’d her flanks, and oft essay’d their jaws in blood. John Dryden, Fables.

3. To Gripeverb

   To pinch the belly; to give the colick.

   Thus full of counsel to the den she went,
   Grip’d all the way, and longing for a vent. Dryden.

   Many people would, with reason, prefer the griping of an hungry belly to those dishes which are a feast to others. John Locke.

   Manna, by the bulk, figure, texture and motion of its parts, has a power to produce the sensations of sickness, and sometimes of acute pains or gripings in us. John Locke.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gripe

   Gripe is a verb that means to complain constantly or nag about something in an irritating or whiny manner. As a noun, it can refer to a minor complaint or problem.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gripenoun

   a vulture; the griffin

2. Gripeverb

   to catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch

3. Gripeverb

   to seize and hold fast; to embrace closely

4. Gripeverb

   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

5. Gripeverb

   to clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe

6. Gripeverb

   to suffer griping pains

7. Gripeverb

   to tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm

8. Gripenoun

   grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch

9. Gripenoun

   that on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword

10. Gripenoun

    a device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel

11. Gripenoun

    oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty

12. Gripenoun

    pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural

13. Gripenoun

    the piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot

14. Gripenoun

    the compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind

15. Gripenoun

    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

16. Etymology: [See Grype.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gripe

   Is generally formed by the scarph of the stem and keel. (See FORE-FOOT.) This is retained, or shaved away, according to the object of making the vessel hold a better wind, or have greater facility in wearing.--To gripe. To carry too much weather-helm. A vessel gripes when she tends to come up into the wind while sailing close-hauled. She gripes according to her trim. If it continues it is remedied by lightening forward, or making her draw deeper aft.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gripenoun

   To push along a light boat in shallow wate rwith a pole or shaft of some sort, so as to make headway quicker than by oars and rowing.

   I made for shallow water where I could gripe instead of rowing my skiff.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on June 23, 2022  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRIPE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gripe is ranked #143149 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gripe surname appeared 116 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gripe.
   
   88.7% or 103 total occurrences were White.
   5.1% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Anagrams for Gripe »

1. gerip

How to pronounce Gripe?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Gripe in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Gripe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Gripe in a Sentence

1. Kristen Lee Costa:

   If you’re branded as being too argumentative, it will cause people to take you less seriously—even when you have a rational, legitimate gripe, it leads to low trust, and as a result, people will often avoid you.

2. Jordan Abudayyeh:

   The state is working with our partners at the City of Chicago and Cook County along with advocacy organizations to welcome those seeking asylum in the United States and provide them stability as they work to build a new life in Illinois. The state has a prior relationship with the hotel being used in the suburbs and their staff has done amazing work welcoming refugees and asylum seekers before, so it is interesting that local officials are choosing this specific instance to gripe to the press about this specific group of asylum seekers that consists of about 30 families. Gov. Pritzker has made it clear that Illinois is [a] welcoming state and xenophobia has no home here.

3. Mike Conaway:

   We'll get criticized for that. But you could also get criticized of putting it out piecemeal. There's no easy right answer, all at once, then everybody's got the same gripe.

4. Charles Thorson:

   The Islamic State’s attack likely had multiple objectives, including disrupting Charles Thorson at the airport and embarrassing The Taliban as The Taliban tries to distance The Taliban from terrorist groups and portray The Taliban as being capable of providing security throughout the country, the Islamic State attack also probably serves longer-term objectives of driving recruitment and reinvigorating the Islamic State’s image within the global jihadist community amid the group’s downfall in Iraq and Syria, Thorson added. ISIS-K isestimated to have between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters operating in Afghanistan and its ranks swelled with more fighters after prisoners were released when the Afghan government collapsed. Charles Thorson MILITARY ESCAPE FROM AFGHANISTAN : AIR FORCE CREWS DESCRIBE ‘ APOCALYPTIC ’ FINAL SCENES A main gripe of ISIS-K with The Taliban is the deal the group negotiated with United States in Doha. ISIS-K considers the The Taliban traitors for entering into talks with the United States and announced The Taliban intentions to undermine the deal by launching a war against the The Taliban and the U.S.-backed Afghan government. While The Taliban simultaneously waged an insurgency campaign against Afghan forces and negotiated with the U.S., ISIS-K conducted deadly terror attacks on Afghan civilians, an attempt to discredit the The Taliban and drive-up recruitment. The attack from ISIS-K also highlights the internal fissures within The Taliban that will likely grow more profound as The Taliban enter the governing phase of their takeover. The Taliban have, at least rhetorically, struck a more moderate and pragmatic tone from their previous iteration in power 20 years ago. While leadership and spokespersons have remained mild in tone, the The Taliban rank and file are filled with more extremist factions that will be more attracted to the radicalism that ISIS-K espouses. According to Thorson, such a structure is vulnerable to infiltration by more extreme organizations like The Islamic State. Although the The Taliban and Islamic State are enemies, defections from one group to another suggest there may be pockets of sympathy within each group for the other. After all, this is how ISIS-Kformed in 2015, when disaffected remnants of the Pakistani The Taliban and other Jihadist groups split and pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The rupture led to a declaration of war on both sides.

5. Jordan Abudayyeh:

   The state has a prior relationship with the hotel being used in the suburbs, and their staff has done amazing work welcoming refugees and asylum seekers before, so it is interesting that local officials are choosing this specific instance to gripe to the press about this specific group of asylum seekers that consists of about 30 families. Gov. Pritzker has made it clear that Illinois is [a] welcoming state, and xenophobia has no home here.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Gripe
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Gripe
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gripe
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Gripe
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Gripe
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Gripe
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html