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comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping
Which catches someone's attention; exciting examples
present participle and gerund of grip examples
plural grippings
The act of forming a grip. quotations examples
His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand.
1949, Stendhal [pseudonym; Marie-Henri Beyle], edited by William Somerset Maugham, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, volume 10, page 126
Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”). quotations examples
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