gripe¹ /grīp/

1. To keep on complaining (informal)
2. To cause, or to suffer, a painful stomach spasm
3. To clutch (obsolete)

1. To cause a painful stomach spasm in
2. To secure with gripes (nautical)
3. To grasp (obsolete)
4. To seize and hold fast (archaic)
5. To squeeze or pinch
6. To afflict, oppress

1. A grumble (informal)
2. (esp in pl) severe spasmodic pain in the intestines
3. A secure hold, grasp
4. A lashing for a boat on deck
5. A pain, pang (obsolete)
6. Forcible retention (obsolete)
7. A usurer (obs sl)

grīpˈer noun

grīpˈing adjective

1. (of a person) constantly complaining
2. (of a pain) seizing acutely
3. Avaricious, grasping

grīpˈingly adverb

• bacillicides
• bacilliform
• bacillus
• bacitracin
• bacitracins
• back
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• backaches
• back and fill
• back and forth
• backare
• backband
• backbands
• backbeat
• backbeats
• back-bench
• backbencher
• backbenchers
• back benches
• backbit
• backbite
• backbiter
• backbiters
• backbites
• backbiting