transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
untransfixed
-
a word derived from
transfix.
Example Sentences
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This is my sister, Nootka, and that,” he added, pointing to Mrs Mangivik, who was gradually becoming untransfixed, “is my mother.”
From The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
