gripping

comparative more gripping · superlative most gripping

1. Which catches someone's attention; exciting

   a gripping action film

   Synonyms: interesting, absorbing, fascinating

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of grip

plural grippings

1. The act of forming a grip.

   His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand.

   1949, Stendhal [pseudonym; Marie-Henri Beyle], edited by William Somerset Maugham, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, volume 10, page 126

2. obsoleteObsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”).

   The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […]

   1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies