spellbound
spel bownd
- v to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
- v attract strongly, as if with a magnet
- v put into a trance
- s having your attention fixated as though by a spell
- Who had them spellbound? Chris Anderson, an unassuming magazine editor, who was explaining a giant curve on an x-y chart, a theory that he calls "the long tail.
- But five relationships kept us spellbound in the 20th century.
- Wright, a disciple of the Russian-born mystic Georgi Gurdjieff, was spellbound by some coincidences between the living and the dead.