gripe

gripe is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A vulture; the griffin. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A vulture; the griffin.
2. transitive verb. To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
3. transitive verb. To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. intransitive verb. To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
6. intransitive verb. To suffer griping pains.
7. intransitive verb. To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
8. noun. Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
9. noun. That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
10. noun. A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
11. noun. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
12. noun. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
13. noun. The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
14. noun. The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
15. noun. 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.
16. noun. informal terms for objecting

    "I have a gripe about the service here"

    Synonyms: beef, bitch, kick, squawk

17. verb. complain

    "What was he hollering about?"

    Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, grouse, holler, squawk

Synonyms

beef, bitch, kick, squawk, bellyache, crab, grouse, holler

Common word forms

griped, griper, gripes, griping, gripeful

Words from these letters

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