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How to pronounce “gripe”

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Pronunciation guide for gripe

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of gripe with real speech in context.
Available examples: 5 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Peter Attiaand have to listen to them gripe about it over dinner?
Definition summary: (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.

Example 1 of 5

Peter Attia

and have to listen to them gripe about it over dinner?

[Verb]
(intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
(transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.
(nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.[1]
(obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
(intransitive, now archaic except in passive) To suffer griping pains.
(obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
(archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
[Noun]
A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
(nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
(obsolete) Grasp; clutch; grip.
(obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
(engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
(obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
(chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

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