transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
have transfixed
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present perfectof transfix.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Vampires might not the hero you typically root for, but they have transfixed us for centuries.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2024
No one broods quite like Nicola Walker, whose eyes have transfixed viewers in television shows like “Unforgotten,” “Last Tango in Halifax” and “The Split.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
For centuries, skilled Iranian storytellers known as Naqqals have transfixed audiences in traditional coffeehouses with stories from the 50,000-verse Shahnameh, but historically it was an art performed by men, for men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
For the last seven weeks, actors and celebrity exes Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have transfixed millions of people with their competing narratives in a Fairfax, Virginia courtroom.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2022
They might readily have transfixed him with their arrows, but they had lost all presence of mind.
From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving
