transfix
verb (used with object)
to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
were 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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Ah Young Hong and Kiera Duffy were transfixing soloists in the Hersch; Hong also gave a commanding performance of Kurtág’s “Kafka Fragments.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
She felt that thousands of eyes, like the little sharp pricks of so many needles, were transfixing her luckless figure, for there were a good many lady visitors present besides the children.
From Our Frank and other stories by Amy Walton
