gripe
verb/ɡraɪp/
/ɡraɪp/
[intransitive] (informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they gripe | /ɡraɪp/ /ɡraɪp/ |
| he / she / it gripes | /ɡraɪps/ /ɡraɪps/ |
| past simple griped | /ɡraɪpt/ /ɡraɪpt/ |
| past participle griped | /ɡraɪpt/ /ɡraɪpt/ |
| -ing form griping | /ˈɡraɪpɪŋ/ /ˈɡraɪpɪŋ/ |
- gripe (about somebody/something) to complain about somebody/something in an annoying way
- He's always griping about the people at work.
- Some members were griping about the new constitution.
- Throughout history, Americans have griped about taxes.
Word OriginOld English grīpan ‘grasp, clutch’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grijpen, German greifen ‘seize’, also to grip and grope. The current usage, of US origin, dates from the 1930s.Definitions on the go
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