begripe
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begripe
- /bɪˈɡɹaɪp/
Where it comes from
From Middle English begripen, bigripen, from Old English begrīpan (“to grip, seize, lay hold of; chide”), from Proto-West Germanic *bigrīpan. Equivalent to be- (“around, about”) + gripe.
verb begripes · begriping · begriped
- To lay hold of; apprehend; grip; grasp. He, with his middle feet, begriped his paunch, And took the arms with the anterior; And then he bit both one and other cheek.
