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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
grippe
 
PRONUNCIATION:  grp
VARIANT FORMS: also grip
NOUN: See influenza (sense 1).
ETYMOLOGY:French, from Old French, claw, quarrel, from gripper, to seize, grasp, from Frankish *grpan.
OTHER FORMS:grippyADJECTIVE
 
 
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  gripe gripsack  
 
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