transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
had transfixed
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past perfectof transfix.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Thirty-six years before Muhammad Ali had transfixed an Olympic crowd with his balletic agility and blurring hand speed, winning gold in Rome in 1960.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2021
It galvanized our dormant desire for a flexible handheld device that could last forever, or at least a few years longer than the disposable designs that had transfixed Apple and Samsung.
From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2019
For decades, the wind-swept salt marshes just up the coast from what’s now LAX had transfixed developers and dreamers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2019
Though investigators declined to elaborate on what the DNA evidence was or how it was obtained, they said it clearly linked him to the crimes that had transfixed them for so long.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2018
The drawing room which had transfixed Cecilia that morning with its parallelograms of light was now in gloom, lit by a single lamp near the fireplace.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
