transfix
trans fiks
- v to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
- v pierce with a sharp stake or point
- Here is a fantasy land as rich as Lewis Carroll's, a netherworld as poetic as Dante's, to transfix the child in every moviegoer.
- The speech was designed as a worded symphony, rising and rousing the audience then falling to a quieter level and aiming to transfix listeners before the tempo picked up again.
- Alternately sobbing and indignant, she seemed to transfix the courtroom spectators and the seven-person jury.