grip
/ɡɹɪp/ · verb
Meaning
- To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
- To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
- To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
- To trench; to drain.
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A handle or other place to grip.
- A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
- (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- A lot of something.
- Influenza, the flu.
- A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- The griffin.
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