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Gripping

//ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Which catches someone's attention; exciting

    "a gripping action film"

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of arousing and holding the attention wordnet
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”). alt-of, obsolete

    "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 […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of grip form-of, gerund, participle, present

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