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Grip English Germanic Gripe Meaning Grope Oe Base

正面 5375.grip
英 [grɪp]美 [ɡrɪp]

背面
释义:
n. 紧握;柄;支配;握拍方式;拍柄绷带vt. 紧握;夹紧vi. 抓住n. (Grip)人名;(英、瑞典)格里普
例句:
1. How much can the President relax his grip over the nation?总统可以对国家的控制放松到什么样的程度?

1. grope <===>gripe, grip.
grip 抓住词源同grab, grapple.
gripgrip: [OE] Grip comes from a prehistoric Germanic verb *gripjan, derived from a base *grip-. Variants of this base produced gripe [OE] (which originally meant simply ‘grasp’), grope [OE], and possibly also grab. French borrowed it as gripper ‘seize’, from which English gets the now obsolete grippe ‘flu’ [18].=> grab, gripe, gropegrip (v.)Old English grippan "to grip, seize, obtain" (class I strong verb; past tense grap, past participle gripen), from West Germanic *gripjan (cognates: Old High German gripfen "to rob," Old English gripan "to seize;" see gripe (v.)). Related: Gripped; gripping. French gripper "to seize," griffe "claw" are Germanic loan-words.grip (n.)c. 1200, "act of grasping or seizing; power or ability to grip," fusion of Old English gripe "grasp, clutch" and gripa "handful, sheaf" (see grip (v.)). Figurative use from mid-15c. Meaning "a handshake" (especially one of a secret society) is from 1785. Meaning "that by which anything is grasped" is from 1867. Meaning "stage hand" is from 1888, from their work shifting scenery."

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