transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
transfixt
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past participleof transfix.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof transfix.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
transfixverb (used with object)to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
Example Sentences
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Therefore we'll parry with cloak what shafts thou shootest against us; And by our bolts transfixt, penalty due thou shalt pay.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
From being transfixt by such a jibe Maupassant was preserved by Flaubert.
From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews
Had I but once transfixt thy froward breast, How would’st thou then——I staid not for the rest; But thus half angry to the boy replide: How would’st thou then my soul of sense bereave!
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
