gripe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English gripen, from Old English grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Norwegian Bokmål gripe, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gripa, Icelandic grípa. See also grip, grope.
Inflected forms:
form: gripes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: griping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: griped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: grope
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: griped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grope
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: gripen
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: gripes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To complain; to whine.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.
After making The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003 (and griping to the press that he was “fed up with the idiots”), Sean Connery enjoyed 17 years of retirement before he died in 2020.
gloss: To annoy or bother.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: What's griping you?
gloss: To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
pos: verb
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: How inly sorrow gripes his soul.
gloss: To suffer griping pains.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the griping of an hungry belly
gloss: To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.
gloss: To seize or grasp.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?
UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance— / Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit, / Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize / Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:
Unclutch his griping hand.
gloss: A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
pos: noun
gloss: A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
pos: noun
gloss: Grasp; clutch; grip.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A barren sceptre in my gripe.
The young peasant […] disengaged himself from Manfred's gripe […].
I started — I dropped the glass — the fluid flamed and glanced along the floor, while I felt Cornelius's gripe at my throat, as he shrieked aloud, "Wretch! you have destroyed the labour of my life!"
gloss: That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the gripe of a sword
gloss: A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the gripe of poverty
'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
gloss: Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
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