Captivate vs Attraction - What's the difference?
captivate | attraction |
To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
* Washington Irving
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, title= (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
* Shakespeare
* Glanvill
The tendency to attract.
The feeling of being attracted.
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, title= An event or location that has a tendency to attract visitors.
(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
As a verb captivate
is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.As a noun attraction is
the tendency to attract.captivate
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Verb
(captivat)- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- Their woes whom fortune captivates .
- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
Anagrams
* ----attraction
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Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction . A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
