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gripping

adj
/ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. Which catches someone's attention

    Which catches someone's attention; exciting

    • a gripping action film

  2. present participle and gerund of grip

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. 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 […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gripping. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01gripping02catches03catch04seizing05grabbing06grab07arrest08arresting

A definitional loop anchored at gripping. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at gripping

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA