TRANSFIXED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transfixed mean? 

• TRANSFIXED (adjective)
  The adjective TRANSFIXED has 1 sense:

1. having your attention fixated as though by a spell

  Familiarity information: TRANSFIXED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSFIXED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having your attention fixated as though by a spell

Synonyms:

fascinated; hypnotised; hypnotized; mesmerised; mesmerized; spell-bound; spellbound; transfixed

Similar:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

But poor Jo never got her laugh, for she was transfixed upon the threshold by a spectacle which held her there, staring with her mouth nearly as wide open as her eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This long screw would have transfixed it and drawn it up with a single pull.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we advanced together through the woods we found the ape-men lying thick, transfixed with spears or arrows.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was first transfixed with surprise, and then electrified with delight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I must have pinched up a piece of loose skin and have transfixed it, for there are two little red points like pin-pricks, and on the band of her nightdress was a drop of blood.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whipping the other from his belt, he sent it skimming some few feet from the earth with so true an aim that it struck and transfixed the stork for the second time ere it could reach the ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He transfixed me with two sharp, steely eyes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It has never been transfixed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)