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gry

/ɡɹaɪ̯/

gry verb: to have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever). Also the abbreviation of gray.

Verb

gry (third-person singular simple present gries, present participle grying, simple past and past participle gried)

  1. (dialectal) To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).

Noun (1)

gry (plural gries)

  1. A fit of ague.

Noun (2)

gry (plural gries)

  1. (archaic) A small amount.
  2. (archaic) One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke

Adjective capitalized: GRY

GRY (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of gray (eye or hair color).

Also used as

gry is also the abbreviation of gray.

gry is also the abbreviation of grey.

Forms of gry

Verb
third-person singular presentgries
present participlegrying
past participlegried
pastgried
Noun
pluralgries
pluralgrys
alternative formgry.

Origin of gry

From Middle English gryen (“to shudder, shake, or convulse”). Compare grue.

Abbreviation of gray.

Questions about gry

What does gry mean?
Gry means to have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).
What part of speech is gry?
Gry can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce gry?
Gry is pronounced /ɡɹaɪ̯/.
What is the past tense of gry?
The past tense of gry is gried.

Words near gry in the dictionary

  1. grv
  2. GRWM
  3. GRWMs
  4. GRWUS
  5. GRX
  6. gry
  7. gryde
  8. gryded
  9. Gryder
  10. Gryders
  11. grydes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gry (page history and authors); GRY (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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