Sekirov Dictionary

gripe

/ɡɹaɪp/

noun 7
verb 7
forms 6

noun7

A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
[in the plural] Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
(old-fashioned) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
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(no longer used) Grasp; clutch; grip.
- A barren sceptre in my gripe. — 1606
(no longer used) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
(no longer used) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.

verb7

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(informal) To complain; to whine.
- 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. — 2025
To suffer griping pains.
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(informal) To annoy or bother.
- What's griping you?
To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
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(no longer used) 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.
- How inly sorrow gripes his soul. — 1591
(no longer used) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
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(no longer used) To seize or grasp.
- Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure? — 1551

forms

griped · grope · gripen · griping · gripes · gripeth

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