Gripe vs Moan - What's the difference?
gripe | moan |
(obsolete) To make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).
(archaic) To seize, grasp.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
To complain; to whine.
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To suffer griping pains.
(nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
(obsolete) 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.
* Shakespeare
A complaint; a petty concern.
(nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
(obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
(engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
(chiefly, in the plural) 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.
* Shakespeare
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
* Prior
(obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To make a moan or similar sound.
To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
(colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
As a verb gripe
is (obsolete|intransitive) to make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).As a noun gripe
is a complaint; a petty concern.As a proper noun moan is
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English
Verb
(grip)- Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?
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- (John Locke)
- How inly sorrow gripes his soul.
Synonyms
* (complain) bitch, complain, whineNoun
(en noun)- A barren sceptre in my gripe .
- the gripe of a sword
- the gripe of poverty
- Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.
Derived terms
* gripe water ----moan
English
Verb
(en verb)- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- which infinitely moans me
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned .
