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Captivate vs Gravitate - What's the difference?

captivate | gravitate |

As verbs the difference between captivate and gravitate

is that captivate is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm while gravitate is to move under the force of gravity.

captivate

English

Verb

(captivat)
  • To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
  • * Washington Irving
  • small landscapes of captivating loveliness
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  • , title= 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.}}
  • (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Their woes whom fortune captivates .
  • * Glanvill
  • '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.

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    gravitate

    English

    Verb

    (gravitat)
  • To move under the force of gravity.
  • * 1712 , Sir , Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books , book II:
  • The?e, who have nature's ?teps with care pur?ued,
    That matter is with ac&
  • 8205;tive force endued,
    That all its parts magnetic power exert,
    And to each other gravitate , a??ert.
  • (figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
  • Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
  • * 1776 , , Wealth of Nations :
  • The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating .
  • * 1923 , , "J.B. Runs Things":
  • Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.