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gripping
gripping
English
Adjective
gripping (comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping)
- Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.
Verb
gripping
- present participle of grip
Noun
gripping (plural grippings)
- 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 […]
- 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies