OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 20551

transfix

Meanings (ES + gloss)
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To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
But we may as well accept her story as true, for it is likely she would have been transfixed by the narcissism of the weight lifters.
He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his…
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To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
The spear transfixed my arm that was uplifted In swift expostulation, and the blood Gushed round its point: I smiled, […]
There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he bathed, and down this on occasion would come a shoal of fish. Then the natives would assemble with spears, and with muc…
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To fix or impale.
Phrases
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