GRIPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does griping mean? 

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

1. acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

colic; gripes; griping; intestinal colic

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

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "griping"):

lead colic; painter's colic (symptom of chronic lead poisoning and associated with obstinate constipation)

 Context examples 

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)