(v. t.) To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
(v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
(v. i.) To suffer griping pains.
(v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
(n.) Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
(n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
(n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
(n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
(n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
(n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
(n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
(n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.
Example Sentences:
(1) His gripe is with Jeremy – as far as I’m concerned, he will play for West Brom again,” Pulis told the Daily Mail .
(2) Like many, I assumed that the accumulated gripes about ticketing (thoroughly justified in this case), Zil lanes, G4S failures, McDonald's sponsorship and over-heavy security would have ensured healthy levels of Olympic alienation and even hostility.
(3) Where d’you live, let’s have this out in person, shall we?’” But these are small gripes.
(4) Or is it someone who takes 10 minutes of going on about their bunions and general gripes before revealing that they had an episode of crippling chest pain last night, by the way?
(5) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity,” he wrote.
(6) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity.” Efforts to contact Latham have been unsuccessful.
(7) Along with the City, they've all got a gripe with Miliband.
(8) Large numbers of babies are given gripe water for no valid reason or for only trivial symptoms, write Cynthia Illingworth and John Timmins.
(9) Simultaneous tenesmic gripes, some of the patients had also suffered from, disappeared completely, with the exception of two cases where, however, normalization of the stools was obtained by means of the loperamide therapy.
(10) Hannah Fletcher, a single mum who works part-time but would like more hours, said her main gripe was that the majority of politicians “are white, middle-aged men who are not in tune with society”.
(11) Lamont's further gripe is a council tax freeze launched as a stopgap measure in 2007-08 by the then minority SNP administration, pending the introduction of a local income tax.
(12) My main gripe is that there’s no flexibility about when my work gets done.
(13) HS That is absolutely not my gripe: if anyone is potty (and rich) enough to spend a grand on a handbag, that’s fine by me— and you’re right, all power to the craftsmen and everyone else involved.
(14) Premier League 2015-16 review: gripe of the season | Tom Davies Read more David Hytner For some reason, I hate it when the league is referred to as ‘The Barclays Premier League,’ either in copy or on TV.
(15) Wilkie says: "The main gripe is that all the music we play is crap.
(16) And for all my gripes, many of my most intense experiences of art happen here.
(17) Indeed, McClaren’s only possible gripe would have been regret that some of his side’s sharp midfield incision could have done with being replicated in the penalty area.
(18) Small gripes include the grading of games leading to tiered pricing, and having to buy tickets for two games if you want to go to Palace versus the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea.
(19) But the militant gays and thinning hair and gluteal amnesia are small gripes.
(20) But bias is not my gripe; the good Muslim v bad Muslim game is an old one.
Seize
Definition:
(v. t.) To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
(v. t.) To take possession of by force.
(v. t.) To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
(v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
(v. t.) To fasten; to fix.
(v. t.) To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
(v. t.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Batson believes there is a “mood” that needs to be seized upon.
(2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(5) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(6) Lieberman said: "[Amazon's] decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.
(7) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
(8) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(9) Employers seize the workers’ passports and the only body that can issue a permit for a worker to leave Qatar is the employer himself.
(10) Backlogs and staff shortages have long been seized upon by veterans groups lobbying for more resources, but it is the apparent cover-up of the scale of the problem that has transformed these latest complaints into a growing political problem for the White House.
(11) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
(12) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
(13) "This is a formidable challenge, requiring step changes in the rate at which we improve our energy efficiency and in low-carbon innovation.The Carbon Trust's proposals recognise the need for us to be smarter in focusing our investments, including to help businesses seize the economic opportunities of the transition."
(14) The US and Iran have had no diplomatic relations since 1979, when a group of student protesters seized the US embassy in Tehran and took US officials hostage.
(15) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
(16) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(17) The Ukrainian president, Oleksandr Turchynov, had given pro-Russian locals in eastern Ukraine until Monday morning to give up their arms and the buildings they had seized, but instead a pro-Russian mob took over yet another government building in Horlivka that day.
(18) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
(19) In 2014, they seized on Osborne’s declaration of a “northern powerhouse” to promote One North, a plan for a £15bn network, dubbed HS3, between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
(20) The president’s supporters seized on the incident to plant seeds of confusion and false equivalency: if that Russia story was wrong, perhaps all of them are wrong?