different between gripping vs entrancing

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gripping (comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping)

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

gripping

gripping (plural grippings)

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 […]

entrancing

entrancing (comparative more entrancing, superlative most entrancing)

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