gripping

UK /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/ US /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/
noun 2adj 1

Definitions

adj

1

Which catches someone's attention; exciting

a gripping action film

noun

1

The act of forming a grip.

His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand.

2

Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”).

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 […]

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