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What does the word gripe mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To grasp.

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To give pain to ( the bowels); distress; suffer; be extortionate.

Part of speech: noun plural

Intermittent pains in the bowels.

Part of speech: noun

A firm hold, grip; oppressive control.

Usage examples for gripe

When they meet they talk across a river, and he knows she is going to another man, and does not gripe her wrist and drag her away! – The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
Your master, Farmer Gripe, for instance, calls his farm his. – Political Pamphlets by George Saintsbury

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