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
Sewell describes a case of transfixion of the chest in a youth of eighteen.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
In a chapter entitled "De craneo perforato" he gives us, however, the treatment of wounds of the head produced by the transfixion of that member by an arrow.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Longmore gives an instance of complete transfixion by a lance of the right side of the chest and lung, the patient recovering.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Amputation in Upper Two-Thirds.—Where the fore-arm is very fat or fleshy, this amputation can be very easily performed by two equal antero-posterior flaps 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
