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present participle of grump
Synonyms & Antonyms of grumping
1
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
- those incessantly grumping patients were generally ignored by the nursing home staff
Synonyms for grumping
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- bitching,
- bleating,
- carping,
- caterwauling,
- complaining,
- crabbing,
- croaking,
- fussing,
- griping,
- grizzling,
- grouching,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- hollering,
- inveighing,
- keening,
- kicking,
- kvetching,
- maundering
- [chiefly British],
- moaning,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nagging,
- repining,
- screaming,
- squawking,
- squealing,
- wailing,
- whimpering,
- whinging
- (or whingeing)
- [British],
- whining,
- yammering,
- yawping
- (or yauping),
- yowling
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2
to silently go about in a bad mood
- he's been grumping about the house all morning because the golf tournament got rained out
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