Definitions for gripe

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Spelling: [grahyp]

IPA: /graɪp/

Gripe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in gripe (egipr).

Definitions for gripe

noun

1. the act of gripping, grasping, or clutching.
2. Informal. a nagging complaint.
3. a firm hold; clutch.
4. a grasp; hold; control.
5. something that grips or clutches; a claw or grip.
6. Nautical. a lashing or chain by which a boat is secured to a deck or in position on davits. Also called gripe piece. a curved timber connecting the stem or cutwater of a wooden hull with the keel. the exterior angle or curve formed by this piece; forefoot. the forward end of the dished keel of a metal hull.
7. a handle, hilt, etc.
8. Usually, gripes. Pathology. an intermittent spasmodic pain in the bowels.

verb (used with object)

1. to seize and hold firmly; grip; grasp; clutch.
2. to produce pain in (the bowels) as if by constriction.
3. to distress or oppress.
4. to annoy or irritate:
5. to grasp or clutch, as a miser.
6. Nautical. to secure (a lifeboat) to a deck or against a pudding boom on davits.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
2. to suffer pain in the bowels.
3. Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to tend to come into the wind; to be ardent.

Origin of gripe

1350-1400; Middle English gripen, Old English grīpan; cognate with Dutch grijpen, German griefen; see grip, grope

Examples for gripe

He struggled furiously, but could not force my gripe from his throat.

The gripe is much older than the bloggers and tweeters who are its latest targets.

He seized her hands, and, with one gripe of his, made hers fly open.

That same world is a tough wrestler, and has a bear's gripe.

To gripe the tall town-steeple by the waste,And scoop it out to be his drinking-horn.

Later, another senior NCO chased me down the hall to gripe about how my pants met my boots.

You haven't heard me gripe about having to go to the store, have you?

Well, I have a gripe with the pope, was a bit disgusted, and was struck by his radical views.

If the gov't wants to listen to me and my friends plan dinners and gripe about our husbands, go for it.

It would be ludicrous to gripe about Louis-Dreyfus winning again for her work in Veep.