enrapture
verb (used with object)
to move to rapture; delight beyond measure.
enraptures
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present tense formof enrapture (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Even when one knows all of its tricks, “Chef’s Table” enraptures.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2019
Julien Baker, March 9 at the Exit/In: A precociously open-hearted 21-year-old comes fully into her own, armed with only her guitar, a few looping pedals, and a voice that enraptures everyone.
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2016
There is nothing, perhaps, that enraptures a baseball crowd like a hard-throwing pitcher.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2015
According to Rodgers, what enraptures listeners – and you can hear it, he says, on the Daft Punk album – is disco's "complex simplicity".
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2013
The communication of a noble idea has the same effect upon the brains of certain men—of one, let us say, in every hundred thousand—as a wine that exalts and enraptures.
From The Nether World by George Gissing
