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Transfixed   /trænsfˈɪkst/   Listen
Transfixed

adjective
1.
Having your attention fixated as though by a spell.  Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound.



Transfix

verb
(past & past part. transfixed; pres. part. transfixing)
1.
To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe.  Synonyms: fascinate, grip, spellbind.
2.
Pierce with a sharp stake or point.  Synonyms: empale, impale, spike.






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"Transfixed" Quotes from Famous Books



... and thence with heated cheeks, Grazed by the northwind's edge of stinging ice, I looked far out upon the snow-bound waste, The lifting hills and intersecting forests, The scarce marked courses of the buried streams, And as I looked lost memory of the frost, Transfixed with wonder, overborne with joy. I saw them in their silence and their beauty, Swept by the sunset's rapid hand of fire, Sudden, mysterious, every moment deepening To some new majesty of rose or flame. The whole broad west was like ...
— Among the Millet and Other Poems • Archibald Lampman

... the German troops, threatening them with revolvers. They said that they were going to make the people of Alost pay for the losses sustained by the Germans. At this hospital was an old woman of 80 completely transfixed by a bayonet. ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... realized the possibility both of triumph for himself and of hope for his followers. For these wanderers can find rest only in a suffering Saviour, by the vision of whose deeper Passion they lose their sense of grief,—as Io on Caucasus in sight of the transfixed Prometheus, and ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various

... chair next to the wall—something that the gendarmes had not noticed. She did not dare to move them. She was paralyzed, as if her fingers had met some cold, strange hand. For one second, two seconds, three seconds, she sat there transfixed, fearing, if she moved as much as a muscle, that something would spring at ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... it thundered and lightened. Two women, fairly frightened, Sank to their knees, transformed, transfixed, At the feet of the man who sat betwixt; And "Mercy!" cried each—"if I tell the truth Of a ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various


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