transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
transfixion
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a word derived from
transfix.
Example Sentences
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And I think this transfixion that happens with this Greyhound, who I think I met once, you know, and then stands there transfixed, there’s a beauty in that—that there’s, you know, everything seems tied.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 20, 2019
Most surgeons are now agreed that in this operation it is better to make both flaps by cutting from without, in preference to transfixion of the plantar one from within.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
Complete penetration or transfixion of the thoracic cavity is not necessarily fatal, and some marvelous instances of recovery after injuries of this nature, are recorded.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Presently he sank back into his chair, holding one hand to his heart, that still throbbed from the strange transfixion.
From The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men by Sir Max Beerbohm
In cases where the long anterior cannot be obtained, two equal flaps should be made by transfixion.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
