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How to pronounce spellbinding in English?

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Synonyms hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing


a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome.

Examples of spellbinding

spellbinding
It was a spellbinding journey, and it ended at a place of magnificent isolation.
From the guardian.co.uk
Their performance was spellbinding, so intense no one in the arena dared breathe.
From the freep.com
I get to read the little annotations in the margins and they are spellbinding.
From the cnn.com
Soul sorceress Erykah Badu ciphered her own curious cosmos to spellbinding effect.
From the washingtonpost.com
Not often enough, a mystery comes along that's as funny as it is spellbinding.
From the inrich.com
Afterwards local Bedouin musicians played spellbinding folk music by the fire.
From the guardian.co.uk
But in the eyes of a fourth-grader with energy to burn, they are spellbinding fun.
From the sacbee.com
Watching someone work at the limit of human capability is always spellbinding.
From the smh.com.au
This spellbinding collection of digital exotica deserves to make her a star.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Hypnotic: attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"
  • (spellbind) fascinate: to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"
  • (spellbind) magnetize: attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks"
  • (spellbind) entrance: put into a trance
  • Engrossing, fascinating, gaining rapt attention
  • (spellbindingly) In a spellbinding manner
  • (spellbind) To attract one's attention as if by a magic spell
  • Fascinate: to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"
  • Magnetize: attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks"