gripping Definition

riveting, engrossing, fascinating, absorbing, interesting, captivating, afflicting, compelling, intriguing, intense, startling, affecting, holding, striking, exciting, storming, harrowing, unfolding, wrenching, thrilling, enveloping, roiling, transfixing, haunting, mesmerizing, searing, exhilarating, chilling, heartrending, terrifying, dramatized, enfolding, pulsating, engulfing, stirring, suffuse, convulsed, jarring, twists, ravaging, lurches, exasperating, palpitating, entwines, clenched, nerved, throbbing, depressing, besets, interweaves, surfeited, tensed, discomfiting, uncoils, beguiling, excruciating, scarred, limns, desolating, wracked, rattling, thrummed, interlaces, unreeling, unraveling, numbed, engross, illuminating, trembling, rollicking, jolting, bewitching, weaves, overdetermined, discombobulating, wracks, intertwines, adrenalized, riven, gnawing, touching, lacerating, satisfying, aching, dazes, biting, straining, unhinging, paralyzing, recreates, disintegrating, petrifying, tingling, aggravating, pinioned, buffeting, rending, uncurling, rippling, recounting,