Allure vs. Fascinate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Allure and Fascinate
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Allure
To attract with something desirable; entice
Promises of quick profits allure the unwary investor.
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.
Allure
To be highly, often subtly attractive
Charms that still allure.
Fascinate
To capture and hold the interest and attention of.
Allure
The power to attract; enticement.
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Fascinate
(Archaic) To deprive of the ability to escape or move, usually by the power of a look. Used of serpents.
Allure
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
Fascinate
(Obsolete) To bewitch.
Allure
(dated) Gait; bearing.
Fascinate
To capture and hold someone's interest and attention.
Allure
The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.
Fascinate
To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
Allure
(transitive) To entice; to attract.
Fascinate
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
Allure
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.
Fascinate
To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.
Her gait fascinates all men.
Allure
Allurement.
Fascinate
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.
Allure
Gait; bearing.
The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
Fascinate
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.
Allure
The power to entice or attract through personal charm
Fascinate
Cause to be interested or curious
Allure
Dispose or incline or entice to;
We were tempted by the delicious-looking food
Fascinate
To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe;
The snake charmer fascinates the cobra
Fascinate
Attract; cause to be enamored;
She captured all the men's hearts
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