Usually means: Held tightly; emotionally or physically.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. gripped: Merriam-Webster
  2. gripped: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gripped: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gripped: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gripped, gripped: Wordnik
  6. gripped: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gripped: Wiktionary
  8. gripped: Dictionary.com
  9. gripped: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. gripped: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gripped: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gripped: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gripped: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gripped: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gripped: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See grip as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gripped)

adjective:  (climbing, slang) Afraid; too anxious to continue a climb.

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