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Impale — mesmerise
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transfix
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context linguistics English) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic languages. vb. (context transitive English) To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
Wikipedia
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In linguistic morphology , a transfix is a discontinuous affix which is inserted into a word root , as in root-and-pattern systems of morphology, like those of many Semitic languages . A discontinuous affix is an affix whose phonetic components are not ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB stand ▪ How long she stood there, transfixed , Luce never knew. ▪ The mobs standing transfixed in front of his paintings in Washington attest to that. ▪ She was playing the piano and I stood there transfixed , a little ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "pierce through, impale," from Middle French transfixer (15c.), from Latin transfixus "impaled," past participle of transfigere "to impale, pierce through," from trans- "through" (see trans- ) + figere "to fix, fasten" (see fix (v.)). Figurative ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra" [syn: fascinate , grip , spellbind ] pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer" [syn: impale , empale , spike ] ...
Usage examples of transfix.
The bodies he saw littering the moon-splashed grass were of men, not beasts: hawk-faced, dark-skinned men, naked, transfixed by arrows or mangled by sword-strokes.
Everything on the dark side of Moorn was transfixed, incapable of movement or life.
I was also relieved - for a man who can stand transfixed by the beauty of a mortadella is not going to be indifferent to the sensuous qualities of velvet or the fall of a hem.
Obviously well under twenty years of age, the shaveling advocate was of average height and stocky physique, black-haired and swarthy of complexion: not an advocate who would transfix by sheer physical presence, though his face was pleasant enough.
Transfixed, he watched the speedometer needle crawl gradually counterclockwise, then snapped off the headlight to conserve energy.
For the moment, Vanamee stood transfixed, struck rigid in his place, stupefied, his eyes staring, breathless with utter amazement.
Whatever the mystical provisions of the animating curse, they did not seem to apply to the unblest, unburied Baldomer, whose transfixed body lay motionless on the balcony a few paces away.
Notes winnowed free like leaves ripped on storm winds, blended into cascades that transfixed the heart with regret.
Thin bolts of energy stabbed through the barroom ceiling, transfixing people here and there like insects on pins.
Those transfixed optics were staring straight past Cliff Marsland as Birdy suddenly altered the direction of his gaze.
But he was transfixed by the wonder of the bodyless voice and would not pay any attention to her directions, but continued to gape.
Transfixed by awe, and a harmony that wrung him breathless, Verrain wept as he realized: the bogland he viewed was still governed by nature.
Tony held them transfixed with the Hampton, knowing what Braker meant.
It transfixed Hooka through the back as he knelt, pinning his corpse to the ground.
She knew she had to get out of the office before Steinmann returned, yet she felt strangely transfixed by the flask.