gripping
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gripping
- /ˈɡɹɪpɪŋ/
Rhymes with -ɪpɪŋ
adjective more gripping · most gripping
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Which catches someone's attention; exciting
a gripping action film
Similar: interesting, absorbing, fascinating
verb
- present participle and gerund of grip
noun grippings
- The act of forming a grip. His resentful comments on this conviction were greeted only by great tears falling in silence, and almost convulsive grippings of his hand.
- Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”). The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […]
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Closest in meaning: absorbing, engrossing, riveting, fascinating, interesting, storming, striking, intense, exciting, compelling, captivating, affecting, startling, afflicting, intriguing, holding
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title = {gripping},
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