• Griping

    Verb

    1. Present participle of gripe

    Full definition of griping

    Noun

    griping

    (plural gripings)
    1. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.
      • 1824, John Mason Good, The study of medicine: with a physiological system of nosologyThe gripings are always severe, and a sort of painful descent of the bowels accompanies every evacuation.
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