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riveting

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riv·et·ing  (rv-tng)
adj.
Wholly absorbing or engrossing one's attention; fascinating: The last chapter was so riveting that I was reading past midnight.
rivet·ing·ly adv.
riveting [ˈrɪvətɪŋ]
adj
absolutely fascinating; enthralling
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.riveting - capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story"
absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping
interesting - arousing or holding the attention
riveting
Translations
riveting rivetting [ˈrɪvɪtɪŋ]
A. N (Tech) → remachado m
B. ADJ (= fascinating) → fascinante, cautivador
riveting [ˈrɪvɪtɪŋ] adj [performance, show, book, speaker, personality] → captivant(e)
riveting
adj (= gripping) → fesselnd; the book is a riveting read → das Buch ist spannender or fesselnder Lesestoff; it’s riveting stuff → es ist faszinierend
rivet(t)ing
n → Nieten nt
riveting [ˈrɪvɪtɪŋ] adj (gripping) → avvincente
riveting [ˈrɪvɪtɪŋ] adj (gripping) → avvincente


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If there should be no army, whither would the militia, irritated by being called upon to undertake a distant and hopeless expedition, for the purpose of riveting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen, direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a project, to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power, and to make them an example of the just vengeance of an abused and incensed people?
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
Winter had been long months in riveting them, and not in a day were they to be broken, not even by the thunderbolt of spring.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
But he never thought--never, my poor, dear, sanguine Richard, capable of so much happiness then, and with such better things before him-- what a fatal link was riveting between his fresh youth and her faded age, between his free hopes and her caged birds, and her hungry garret, and her wandering mind.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
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