griped; griping
1
: to complain with grumbling
Students griped about having too much homework.
2
: to experience gripes
2
: to cause pinching and spasmodic pain in the bowels of
griper
noun
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Examples of gripe in a Sentence
Verb
All of the workers were griping about the new regulations.
The students griped that they had too much homework.
Noun
I would rather not listen to gripes about your latest disasters in the dating game.
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Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 4 Oct. 2024
Here are three of our stories from this week:
→ Irate CLT passengers keep griping about TSA lines.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2024
PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
Amazon, on the other hand, sued the Trump administration for allegedly scuttling a $10 billion government cloud-computing contract as a result of Trump’s gripes.
—Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Singaporeans have long griped about the city’s rail system, which has gone through several major disruptions over the past decade.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 4 Oct. 2024
Here are three of our stories from this week:
→ Irate CLT passengers keep griping about TSA lines.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2024
Noun
My one gripe is that the leaderboards are global, and there’s no way to connect and compete with specific family or friends, which would add a more personalized competitive aspect to the treadmill.
—PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
Amazon, on the other hand, sued the Trump administration for allegedly scuttling a $10 billion government cloud-computing contract as a result of Trump’s gripes.
—Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Gripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gripe. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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gripe
1 of 2 verb
griped; griping
1
archaic
: to seize firmly : grip
2
b
: irritate sense 1, vex
laziness gripes our teacher
3
: to cause or experience spasms of pain in the intestines
4
griper
noun
gripe
2 of 2 noun2
3
: a spasm of pain in the intestines
Medical Definition
gripe
1 of 2 verb
griped; griping
: to cause pinching and spasmodic pain in the bowels of
: to experience gripes
gripe
2 of 2 noun
: a pinching spasmodic intestinal pain
—usually used in plural
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