Begripe
//bɪˈɡɹaɪp// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To lay hold of; apprehend; grip; grasp. transitive
"He, with his middle feet, begriped his paunch, And took the arms with the anterior; And then he bit both one and other cheek."
Example
More examples"He, with his middle feet, begriped his paunch, And took the arms with the anterior; And then he bit both one and other cheek."
Etymology
From Middle English begripen, bigripen, from Old English begrīpan (“to grip, seize, lay hold of; chide”), from Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan. Equivalent to be- (“around, about”) + gripe.
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