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gripping

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /????p??/
  • Rhymes: -?p??

Adjective

gripping (comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping)

  1. Which catches someone's attention; exciting
    a gripping action film
    Synonyms: interesting, absorbing, fascinating

Verb

gripping

  1. present participle of grip

Noun

gripping (plural grippings)

  1. Obsolete form of griping. (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
    • 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
      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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engrossing

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?n???o?s??/, /?????o?s??/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /?n?????s??/, /???????s??/

Adjective

engrossing (comparative more engrossing, superlative most engrossing)

  1. Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
    Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating

Translations

Verb

engrossing

  1. present participle of engross

Noun

engrossing (plural engrossings)

  1. The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.

Anagrams

  • grossening

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