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• v  to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
• v  pierce with a sharp stake or point
• s  having your attention fixated as though by a spell

• The "later Wittgenstein" spent the next 18 years agonizing in front of a small Cambridge seminar of devoted and transfixed students, who posed curious questions that he then .
• One watches transfixed, yet ashamed, as personal dignity gives way to political desperation and hard-won respect is replaced by ribald laughter.
• He was extradited to Israel in 1986, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and condemned to hang after a dramatic trial that transfixed the nation.

• fascinate
• transfix
• grip
• spellbind
• impale
• empale
• spike
• fascinated
• hypnotized
• hypnotised
• mesmerized
• mesmerised
• spellbound
• spell-bound

News & Articles

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• Editorial: Campaign finance reform - less talk, more action
  With just days left in a legislative session too often transfixed by scandal and corruption, there has been plenty of talk, but no action, on campaign finance reform - seen as a tool for bringing about fairer elections.
  June 11, 2013 - The Journal News
• Bynes' Ugly Obsession
  LOS ANGELES – A few years ago, long before she started what has now become the Amanda Show, Amanda Bynes strutted out of a West Hollywood gym and stood for a moment, transfixed at the window reflection of herself in a tiny crop top and itty bitty shorts.
  June 7, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Nicolas Cage in Times Online
  Cage recalled that he had first come across the Ghost Rider comics as a seven-year-old: "I saw this comic with this colourful flaming skull on the cover and he's coming right at you - I was transfixed. It is really how I got into reading and I still...
• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  As the world stood transfixed on how Americans and New Yorkers would respond to the worst attacks on American soil, we dared to dream big and think bold. We selected the visionary master site plan by Daniel Libeskind that placed the Memorial to our... George Pataki http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pataki&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEFsKPSYx5vBiYu2_x2ImR7c3WTFg Western Queens Gazette http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.qgazette.com/news/2006/0913/features/002.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFsGiKFG2S4CHM5Iz5Qy4R3opbm3A Sep 13, 2006 101489 134659 transform We have a once in a generation chance to act boldly, turn adversity into opportunity, and use this crisis as a chance to transform our economy for the 21st century," Obama said Friday in a speech to business leaders at the White House.