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grip

/ɡɹɪp/ · verb

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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