Having your attention fixated as though by a spell.
Synonyms
Examples for "fascinated"
Examples for "fascinated"
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He was so fascinated that he asked question after question at supper.
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People are fascinated by the idea of looking into their family history.
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It's one question that has fascinated humankind since the beginning of time.
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Henderson and Pike, however, became fascinated by a number of statistical peculiarities.
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She also bought a morning paper with a headline that fascinated her.
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I was staring at the stage, hypnotized almost as completely as Kitty.
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Berenice was in no way hypnotized by either his wealth or fame.
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At the mere sight of the mark, Blair stared as though hypnotized.
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His mind, self-hypnotized, had passed them over in the same old fashion.
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A hypnotist came to the opera-house and I volunteered to be hypnotized.
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Because when Caballo started to talk this time, he kept me spellbound.
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And then she came in, and in an instant I was spellbound.
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The appalling roar held me spellbound with my foot in the stirrup.
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The power and extraordinary sweetness of the voice held the multitude spellbound.
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The spectacle was one that for the moment held the boys spellbound.
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Krausova said the books mesmerized them, seeming to ask for their owners.
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The prints somehow mesmerized him; he could not help but follow them.
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Quite possible if someone like Butler were mesmerized and doing the incapacitating.
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Academics were divided on the subject of ape language but mesmerized nonetheless.
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Jatal stared, gagging and sickened, yet also mesmerized by the appalling sight.
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Seemingly, you have to want to be hypnotised for it to work.
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A pickpocket who apparently hypnotised his victim is being hunted by police.
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Its white attracted my eyes, and, as it were, hypnotised my brain.
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You were hypnotised, my dear friend, and he made you see her.
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Death had hypnotised him, and against death and destiny who could struggle?
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Broadcast live in its early stages, the trial mesmerised millions of Arabs.
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Throughout, you're left mesmerised by how much Marcus packs into his lines.
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She was partially committed to his schemes; and she was easily mesmerised.
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Courtney is mesmerised by these ordinary houses with their neatly kept gardens.
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It is dreadful, but the poet is mesmerised by this cold expanse.
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Standing upon the threshold of the blue drawing-room you are almost spell-bound.
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What was yet left untold held the young man in spell-bound silence.
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She looked at it steadfastly, spell-bound by the terror that held her.
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For the space of a moment each gazed on the other, spell-bound.
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She turned slowly, spell-bound by his voice, and confronted him in silence.
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Creedmoor stared transfixed at the map of violence growing at his feet.
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For example, the 71-year-old playwright was transfixed by the Amanda Knox trial.
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The eyes before him remained transfixed in the space beyond his shoulder.
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The rest of the world is still transfixed by Australia's bushfire crisis.
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We stood transfixed for a moment as the room swelled with light.
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She didn't know how long they stood transfixed by that shining thing.
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For an instant the blacks and the whites stood transfixed with terror.
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Forrester was transfixed by his computer screen, Googling away at 'human sacrifice'.
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There was a frozen moment while the scene was transfixed with light.
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He stood transfixed, dumbfounded, waiting for a second call that never came.
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We watched, transfixed, as the great sacrifice was consumed in the night.
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I saw post-encephalitics who seemed frozen, transfixed, unable to take a step.
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The sharpened stick that had transfixed the bait was pulled out clean.
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I remember standing transfixed; and crouching on the floor, after a while.
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The nation has been transfixed by coverage of the San Bernardino attacks.
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She could hold an audience transfixed just by taking her glove off.
