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Seducing vs Tantalizing - What's the difference?

seducing | tantalizing |

As verbs the difference between seducing and tantalizing

is that seducing is while tantalizing is .

As an adjective tantalizing is

teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.

seducing

English

Verb

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  • tantalizing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
  • * 1851 — , Ch. 133
  • *:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
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