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Grammar : Verb
Spell : grahyp
Phonetic Transcription : graɪp


Definition of griping

Origin :
  • Old English gripan "grasp at, lay hold, attack, take, seek to get hold of," from Proto-Germanic *gripanan (cf. Old Saxon gripan, Old Norse gripa, Dutch grijpen, Gothic greipan, Old High German grifan, German greifen "to seize"), from PIE root *ghreib- "to grip" (cf. Lithuanian griebiu "to seize"). Figurative sense of "complain, grouse" is first attested 1932, probably from earlier meaning "gripping pain in the bowels" (c.1600; cf. bellyache). Related: Griped; griping.
  • verb complain
  • verb pain, annoy
Example sentences :
  • She could not speak, just then, for the griping ache that was in her throat.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • I said only our extreme need and griping poverty justified our acts.
  • Extract from : « Caught In The Net » by Emile Gaboriau
  • It's who and what you are and who and what I am that's griping me.
  • Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • His moans were the loudest, his convulsions the most violent, his cramps the most griping.
  • Extract from : « Sube Cane » by Edward Bellamy Partridge
  • Tom was griping because he'd have to do Devis's work and his own.
  • Extract from : « Four-Day Planet » by Henry Beam Piper
  • Then came a griping frost and a hard sky, with slight breeze and a quiet sea.
  • Extract from : « A Dream of the North Sea » by James Runciman
  • He was a griping, grasping man, who took double toll, and was as avaricious as a grave-yard.
  • Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke
  • The poor dreaded him—the good despised him; for he was a hardhearted, selfish, griping man.
  • Extract from : « The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales » by Francis A. Durivage
  • She no longer thought of his covetousness, of his griping usury, of his living so much for self and so little for God.
  • Extract from : « The Sea Lions » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • A dizziness and griping pain was upon him, and he sank down in the river-bed, by a water-hole.
  • Extract from : « John Ames, Native Commissioner » by Bertram Mitford

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