Complain vs. Gripe

(intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

Example: ‘Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.’;

(intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.

Example: ‘They've complained about me to the police again.’;

To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

Example: ‘the complaining bed-springs’;

To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; - commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

Example: ‘O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!’;

To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.

Example: ‘Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?’;

To lament; to bewail.

Example: ‘They might the grievance inwardly complain.’; ‘By chaste Lucrece's soul that late complain'dHer wrongs to us.’;

express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness;

Example: ‘My mother complains all day’; ‘She has a lot to kick about’;

make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge;

Example: ‘The plaintiff's lawyer complained that he defendant had physically abused his client’;

To complain; to whine.

To annoy or bother.

Example: ‘What's griping you?’;

(nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.

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) To suffer griping pains.

To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).

To seize or grasp.

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.

Example: ‘the gripe of a sword’;

A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

(obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.

Example: ‘the gripe of poverty’;

Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

(nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.

(nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.

(nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.

(obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

A vulture; the griffin.

Example: ‘Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.’;

Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

Example: ‘A barren scepter in my gripe.’;

That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.

A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.

Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; - chiefly used in the plural.

The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.

To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.

To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

Example: ‘Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure ?’;

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.

Example: ‘How inly sorrow gripes his soul.’;

To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.

To suffer griping pains.

to complain

To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.

informal terms for objecting;

Example: ‘I have a gripe about the service here’;

complain;

Example: ‘What was he hollering about?’;