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Griping vs Gripping - What's the difference?

griping | gripping |

As verbs the difference between griping and gripping

is that griping is present participle of gripe while gripping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between griping and gripping

is that griping is pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe while gripping is obsolete form of lang=en pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

As an adjective gripping is

catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

griping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

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

    gripping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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