Gripping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRIPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• GRIP, to take hold of
• take and keep a firm hold of; grasp tightly
• maintain a firm contact, especially by friction
• (of an emotion or situation) have a strong or adverse effect on
• firmly hold the attention or interest of
NOUN:
• a firm hold; a tight grasp
• a manner of holding something
• the ability of something, especially a wheel or shoe, to maintain a firm contact with a surface
• effective control over something
• an understanding of something
• a part or attachment by which something is held in the hand
• a hairgrip.
• a travelling bag
• a stagehand in a theatre.
• a member of a camera crew responsible for moving and setting up equipment.
ADJECTIVE:
• capable of arousing and holding the attention
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to grasp
• present participle of grip

Words related to GRIPPING

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Words that contain GRIPPING

grippingly19

How to use GRIPPING in a sentence

• Phosphorus cakes! Kurt held his breath while he peered down the gloomy road, his heart pounding, his hands gripping the rifle.
• It seemed to him like a terrible nightmare, in its sudden, gripping fury.
• Comrades in enterprise and fear, they sat gripping each other in the darkness, for the moon had now set.
• But he stood grimly planted by the table, gripping its edge as if to keep himself anchored.
• For a long time he sat beside the fire, his hands gripping the rifle across his knees, his head slightly bowed in that statue-like posture so characteristic of the Indian.
• This had saved me, for the jam had quickly become too dense for anything more than the mad gripping and tearing of hands.
• He told me that the force of his desire must have spoken in that look because Grimshaw started and stepped back a pace, gripping his cane.
• With the thought that she was seeking for the man who was her husband, a leaden hand seemed gripping at his heart.
• Its presence was so very real, its power so gripping, its partial concealment so abominable.
• Gripping it wildly to save herself from that onslaught, she tore it away.
• But I see Sir Felix also, a trifle red in the face, gripping the arms of his chair, bending forward and confronting them.
• She was standing quite still, her hand gripping the post, her eyes fixed upon the waiting motor-car.
• I will die if it must be so, under water, but I will die gripping at Christ.
• Ralph stared at her, dazed by the shock, still gripping the bundle of papers.
• Uncle Bushrod, firmly gripping his hickory stick, tiptoed gently up this passage until he could see the midnight intruder into the sacred precincts of the Weymouth Bank.
• And suddenly I was gripping her, twisting her wrist.
• The fuse was lit and fifty thousand men stood gripping their guns, waiting for the shock.
• A moment later it fell upon the papers he was so tightly gripping.
• When they were brought by the startled servants, Donna Elvira was standing away from him, gripping the back of the chair.
• It was but a gripping of the pistol and a quick pull at the trigger, and I should be out of the labyrinth for good and all.
• I was outside, gripping the white cloth, clinging with one hand to the shattered casing.
• So my father led the way and we followed, Margery gripping my hand tight, and the rest talking in loud whispers.
• Gunnill started up from his chair and, gripping his hand, shook it fervently.
• At the same instant the gallop became a fast trot, and she saw that the rider was gripping the animal with his knees.
• So Tom and Dan, gripping their quite harmless weapons, became more alert in appearance.
• With his derby hat pulled low over his eyes and gripping his suit case, Henkel slunk through the corridors of Bancroft Hall.
• Mac Strann swung clear, gripping the horn of the saddle with one hand while with the other he hastily divested himself of all superfluous weight.
• This is to be the never-absent motive gripping us, and our possessions and our plans.
• The suffering must be mastered, and he lay with gripping hands, striving by force of will to overcome what he thought of as the brutal play of small, sharp knives.
• He called out to the holy man, holding his nostrils with one hand, and with the other gripping the bars and sitting sideways on the sill of the window.
• It would mean gripping life again with the full strength of both hands.

Similar words containing GRIPP without suffix ing

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