transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
was transfixing
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past progressiveof transfix.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Waters’ muse Divine, the drag performer who was transfixing on screen whether playing a criminal vixen or a put-upon suburban mom, passed away in 1988.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
The sight was transfixing: the ugly lifeblood of industrialization no longer hidden away in pipelines, but unleashed.
From The Verge ● Dec. 10, 2019
But the de Bures brass was transfixing: Laid into the floor in the north aisle is a life-size knight in chain mail, hands clasped in prayer.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2015
The tenor Jonathan Blalock was transfixing in the title role; Spears’s score glistened beautifully and eerily around him.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2014
Desisting from the absent but fierce stare with which he was transfixing the clerk, he drew Varney hurriedly aside.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
