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Overpowering vs Beguiling - What's the difference?

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Overpowering is a related term of beguiling.


As verbs the difference between overpowering and beguiling

is that overpowering is while beguiling is .

As adjectives the difference between overpowering and beguiling

is that overpowering is that overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming while beguiling is that beguiles or beguile.

As a noun beguiling is

a beguilement.

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.}}

    beguiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beguilement.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That beguiles or beguile.
  • * a beguiling look
  • * 2009 , , The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet , Pinguin Books, page 26:
    • I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?