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Allure vs. Fascinate

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Allurenoun

The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

Fascinateverb

To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.

‘The flickering TV fascinated the cat.’;

Allurenoun

(dated) gait; bearing

Fascinateverb

To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.

‘We were fascinated by the potter's skill.’;

Allureverb

(transitive) To entice; to attract.

Fascinateverb

To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.

‘Her gait fascinates all men.’;

Allureverb

To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.

‘With promised joys allured them on.’; ‘The golden sun in splendor likest HeavenAllured his eye.’;

Fascinateverb

To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.

‘It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain.’;

Allurenoun

Allurement.

Fascinateverb

To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms.

‘There be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewitch but love and envy.’;

Allurenoun

Gait; bearing.

‘The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.’;

Fascinateverb

cause to be interested or curious

Allurenoun

the power to entice or attract through personal charm

Fascinateverb

to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe;

‘The snake charmer fascinates the cobra’;

Allureverb

dispose or incline or entice to;

‘We were tempted by the delicious-looking food’;

Fascinateverb

attract; cause to be enamored;

‘She captured all the men's hearts’;

Fascinate

Fascinate is a graffiti painting at an industrial park in Bromsten, Stockholm. Fascinate was created by Circle and Tariq (Tarik Saleh), then 17 years old, in 1989 and was then the largest graffiti painting in northern Europe.

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