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GRIPPING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of arousing and holding the attention
Example:
a fascinating story
Synonyms:
absorbing; engrossing; fascinating; gripping; riveting
Classified under:
Similar:
interesting (arousing or holding the attention)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb grip
Context examples:
The knowledge that I loved her rushed upon me with the terror, and with both emotions gripping at my heart and causing my blood at the same time to chill and to leap riotously, I felt myself drawn by a power without me and beyond me, and found my eyes returning against my will to gaze into the eyes of Wolf Larsen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Mas'r Davy!” said he, gripping my hand in that strong hand of his, “it was you as first made mention of her to me. I thankee, sir! She was arnest. She had know'd of her bitter knowledge wheer to watch and what to do. She had done it. And the Lord was above all! She come, white and hurried, upon Em'ly in her sleep. She says to her, “Rise up from worse than death, and come with me!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And then the wheel would reappear, and Wolf Larsen’s broad shoulders, his hands gripping the spokes and holding the schooner to the course of his will, himself an earth-god, dominating the storm, flinging its descending waters from him and riding it to his own ends.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
