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Examples of transfix
transfix
Scott-Heron still has the power to transfix with a piano chord and the cracked leather of his voice.
From the guardian.co.uk
This breath-stopping documentary could transfix teens while showing them the rewards and costs of following one's bliss.
From the washingtonpost.com
Both a virtuoso of technique and an uninhibitedly emotional interpreter of a tune he's guaranteed to transfix an audience.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Alternately sobbing and indignant, she seemed to transfix the courtroom spectators and the seven-person jury.
From the time.com
They demonstrate sport's power not only to transfix, but to transcend negative stereotypes and transform perceptions.
From the guardian.co.uk
That won't matter this weekend, as auctions stall in both cities as punters transfix on the AFL and NRL grand finals.
From the smh.com.au
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.
From the time.com
Umm Kulthoum was famous for her emotive songs that continue to transfix audiences across the Arab world, 30 years after her death.
From the denverpost.com
This is David's story, yet much of the burden rests on Cruz, required to be so appealing that her character can transfix a literary tomcat.
From the sacbee.com
- Fascinate: to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"
- Pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"
- (transfixed) fascinated: having your attention fixated as though by a spell
- In linguistic morphology, a transfix is a discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word. ...
- (transfixed) Rendered motionless by completely focused attention, rapt, entranced, mesmerized
- (Transfixed) Pierced by an arrow or similar weapon. Said of an animal.
- (transfixed) to shock someone enough to give them the inability to move
