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gripping en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. Which catches someone's attention; exciting
   • a gripping action film

Forms

Deriveds

grippingness · grippingly

Synonyms

absorbing · fascinating · interesting

gripping en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. The act of forming a grip.
   • His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand. 1949, Stendhal [pseudonym; Marie-Henri Beyle], edited by William Somerset Maugham, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, volume 10, page 126:
2. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”).
   alt of griping
   • The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […] 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies:

Forms

gripping en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of grip
   form of grip