gripping
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Pronunciation
Adjective
gripping (comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping)
- Which catches someone's attention; exciting
- a gripping action film
- Synonyms: interesting, absorbing, fascinating
Verb
gripping
- present participle and gerund of grip
Noun
gripping (plural grippings)
- The act of forming a grip.
- 1949, Stendhal [pseudonym; Marie-Henri Beyle], edited by William Somerset Maugham, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, volume 10, page 126:
- His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand.
- Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”).
- 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies:
- 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 […]
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