transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
transfixed
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past participleof transfix.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof transfix.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
transfixverb (used with object)to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
Example Sentences
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Block described staring up at the gallery wall, transfixed by the horror.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
He was hopeless at math and likely dyslexic, but said he was utterly transfixed by music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
For the technology available at the time, the dinosaurs looked incredibly realistic and left viewers transfixed.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
In an early scene in “Othello” the title character recalls in lush language how his recounting of the daring and dangerous exploits he endured as a warrior transfixed and moved his new wife, Desdemona:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
I shook my head, clueless, then stared transfixed at the thing behind them—a wall in graded heights, of proportions I had not even imagined.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
