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gripe

verb as in complain

verb as in pain, annoy

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Teams have also griped about dried-out fields and practice sessions that had to be cut short due to the heat.

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With conference about to start, it's almost a Tory tradition to fill the papers and podcasts with gripes about the party leader.

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Her gripes with the network and the other TV personalities segued into a tirade against the left, which she said “understands everything in a way different than myself.”

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Are you going to sit on the radical left side of your sofa and gripe about what’s happened to your country, or get with the program and try to do a few pushups?

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He never griped that he was pitching on short rest, or pitching with a bum arm, or pitching with a terrible offense and an untrustworthy bullpen.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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