GRIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gripe mean? 

• GRIPE (noun)
  The noun GRIPE has 1 sense:

1. informal terms for objecting

  Familiarity information: GRIPE used as a noun is very rare.

• GRIPE (verb)
  The verb GRIPE has 1 sense:

1. complain

  Familiarity information: GRIPE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for objecting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

beef; bitch; gripe; kick; squawk

Context example:

I have a gripe about the service here

Hypernyms ("gripe" is a kind of...):

objection (the speech act of objecting)

Derivation:

gripe (complain)

• GRIPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gripe    ... he / she / it gripes   
Past simple: griped   
Past participle: griped   
-ing form: griping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Complain

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

beef; bellyache; bitch; crab; gripe; grouse; holler; squawk

Context example:

What was he hollering about?

Hypernyms (to "gripe" is one way to...):

complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

gripe (informal terms for objecting)

 Context examples 

My eye rose to his; and while I looked in his fierce face I gave an involuntary sigh; his gripe was painful, and my over-taxed strength almost exhausted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It went from me with a shock, like a ball fired from a rifle: but the image of Agnes, outraged by so much as a thought of this red-headed animal's, remained in my mind when I looked at him, sitting all awry as if his mean soul griped his body, and made me giddy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Maddison is a clever fellow; I do not wish to displace him, provided he does not try to displace me; but it would be simple to be duped by a man who has no right of creditor to dupe me, and worse than simple to let him give me a hard-hearted, griping fellow for a tenant, instead of an honest man, to whom I have given half a promise already.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)