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"ipa": "/ˈɡɹɪpəl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪpəl"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "gripple"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -le",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪpəl",
"Rhymes:English/ɪpəl/2 syllables"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grip",
"3": "le",
"pos2": "frequentative suffix"
},
"expansion": "grip + -le (frequentative suffix)",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From grip + -le (frequentative suffix).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gripples",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "grippling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "grippled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "grippled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "gripple (third-person singular simple present gripples, present participle grippling, simple past and past participle grippled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with rare senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To grasp."
],
"links": [
[
"grasp",
"grasp"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, rare) To grasp."
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɹɪpəl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪpəl"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gripple.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-gripple.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-gripple.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "gripple"
}
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