transfixing
Meaning of transfixing
verb, gerund or present participle
- cause (someone) to become motionless with horror, wonder, or astonishment.
he was transfixed by the pain in her face
she stared at him, transfixed
- pierce with a sharp implement or weapon.
a field mouse is transfixed by the curved talons of an owl
late 16th century (in transfix (sense 2)): from Latin transfix- ‘pierced through’, from the verb transfigere, from trans- ‘across’ + figere ‘fix, fasten’.
Information about transfixing
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Hyphenation of transfixing
trans-fix-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- transfixing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
transfixing synonyms
Meaning hypnotize (someone):
Meaning capture the whole attention of (someone); fascinate:
Meaning hold the complete attention of (someone) as though by magic; fascinate:
Meaning enchant and delight (someone):
Meaning attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm:
Meaning an opening, such as a door, passage, or gate, that allows access to a place:
Meaning capture the fascinated attention of:
Meaning attract the strong attention and interest of (someone):
Meaning absorb all the attention or interest of:
Meaning give intense pleasure or joy to:
Meaning knock unconscious or into a dazed or semi-conscious state:
Meaning make (someone) unable to think or feel properly:
Meaning shock or greatly surprise:
Meaning take and keep a firm hold of; grasp tightly:
Meaning make (someone) so frightened that they are unable to move:
Meaning prevent (something or someone) from moving or operating as normal:
Meaning (with reference to a liquid) turn or be turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold:
Meaning join or fasten (plates of metal) with a rivet or rivets:
Meaning transfix or pierce with a sharp instrument:
Meaning thrust a knife or other pointed weapon into (someone) so as to wound or kill:
Meaning pierce or strike with a spear or other pointed object:
Meaning (of a sharp pointed object) go into or through (something):
Meaning impale on or pierce with a sharp point:
Meaning fasten together or pierce with a pin or skewer:
Meaning a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree:
Meaning blood that has been shed, especially as a result of violence:
Meaning attach or fasten with a pin or pins:
Meaning stab (someone) with a bayonet:
Meaning spear with a harpoon:
Meaning prick or cut open (an abscess or boil) with a lancet or other sharp instrument:
Meaning make a puncture in (something):
Meaning pierce and make a hole or holes in:
Meaning pierce through (someone or something):
Words that rhyme with transfixing
Xing, axing, banjaxing, beeswaxing, climaxing, coaxing, dewaxing, faxing, hoaxing, malaxing, maxing, minimaxing, nonwaxing, overtaxing, pickaxing, poleaxing, raxing, relaxing, retaxing, rewaxing, surtaxing, taxing, telefaxing, uncoaxing, undertaxing, unrelaxing, untaxing, waxing, annexing, apexing, apoplexing, autoindexing, autosexing, circumflexing, coannexing, complexing, convexing, deflexing, demultiplexing, desexing, disannexing, duplexing, exing, fedexing, flexing, hexing, indexing, multiplexing, perplexing, precomplexing
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