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verb-intransitive. Informal To complain naggingly or petulantly; grumble.

verb-intransitive. To have sharp pains in the bowels.

v. Informal To irritate; annoy: Her petty complaints really gripe me.

v. To cause sharp pain in the bowels of.

v. To grasp; seize.

v. To oppress or afflict.

n. Informal A complaint.

n. Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.

n. A firm hold; a grasp.

n. A grip; a handle.

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

v. To seize, grasp.

v. To complain; to whine.

n. A complaint; a petty concern.

n. A specific wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.

n. grasp; clutch; grip

n. That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.

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

n. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.

n. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

n. The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.

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

n. An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.

n. A vulture; the griffin.

v. To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.

v. To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

v. 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.

verb-intransitive. To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.

verb-intransitive. To suffer griping pains.

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

verb-intransitive. to complain.

n. Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

n. That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip.

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

n. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.

n. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.

n.

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

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

n. 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.

To lay hold of with the fingers or claws; grasp strongly; clutch.

To seize and hold firmly in any way.

To tighten; clench.

To produce pain in as if by constriction or contraction: as, to gripe the bowels.

Hence To pinch; straiten; distress.

To lay hold with or as with the hand; fix the grasp or clutch.

To get money by grasping practices and exactions: as, a griping miser.

To suffer griping pains.

Nautical, to lie too close to the wind: as, a ship gripes when she has a tendency to shoot up into the wind in spite of her helm.

n. Fast hold with the hand or arms; close embrace; grasp; clutch.

n. A handful.

n. Forcible retention; bondage: as, the gripe of a tyrant or a usurer; the gripe of superstition.

n. In pathology, an intermittent spasmodic pain in the intestines, as in colic; cramp-colic; cramps: usually in the plural.

n. Something used to clutch, seize, or hold a thing; a claw or grip.

n. Specifically A pitchfork; a dung-fork.

n. Nautical: The forefoot, or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end. See cut under stem.

n. The compass or sharpness of a ship's stem under water, chiefly toward the bottom of the stem.

n. Nautical: plural Lashings for boats, to secure them in their places at sea, whether hanging at the davits or stowed on deck.

n. One of two bands by which a boat is prevented from swinging about when suspended from the davits.

n. A small boat.

n. A miser.

n. A ditch or trench: same as grip, 1.

; pret. and pp. griped, ppr. griping. Same as grip.

n. A griffin.

n. A vulture.

v. complain

n. informal terms for objecting

"My main gripe is that I pictured two women in my mind until just after a third of the way through the piece."

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griped    gripes    griping   

sound off    kick    quetch    complain    plain    kvetch    objection   

watery gripes   

vulture    clutch    pinch    complain    grasp    seizure    handle    grip    oppression    affiction   

gipe    hype    lipe    overripe    pipe    ripe    sipe    snipe    stipe    stripe