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GRIPES

verb

DEFINITION:

1. complain about something in a persistent, irritating way.

2. affect with gastric or intestinal pain

3.	strong hold

4. To produce pain in the bowels of

SAMPLE SENTENCES:

Companies gripe that the strong yen may push them to move operations overseas.

It appeared on the list in the fourth spot, between treachery and gripe.

Gripe about the book is the standard of some of the photographs.

I have a gripeabout family rooms in pubs.

Got a gripeor a compliment or something to say?

The biggest gripemost people will have is with game saves.

You want to be dominated but still gripeabout it.

I struggled to find any gripes about this hardware.

My main gripeis the absence of two- player levels.

Origin
Old English grīpan ‘grasp, clutch’, of Germanic origin; related to
Dutch grijpen, German greifen ‘seize’, also to grip and grope.
Sense 2 of the verb dates from the 17th cent.; sense 1 of the verb,
of US origin, dates from the 1930s.

Synonyms:

bellyache, blow off, carp, crab, fuss, groan, grouch, grouse, grumble, kvetch, moan, murmur, mutter, nag, squawk, take on*, whine, yammer, yawp