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Gripping vs Overpowering - What's the difference?

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Gripping is a related term of overpowering.


As adjectives the difference between gripping and overpowering

is that gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating while overpowering is that overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.

As verbs the difference between gripping and overpowering

is that gripping is while overpowering is .

As a noun gripping

is (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines).

gripping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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

    overpowering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}