transfix

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make someone unable to move or look away, through fear, amazement, or wonder.

   The audience sat transfixed as the dancer spun across the stage.

2. 2
   verb

   To pierce something through with a sharp, pointed object.

   The hunter's spear transfixed the charging animal.

From Middle French transfixer, from Old French transfixer, from Latin transfigō (“to pierce through”), from trans- (“through”) + figō (“to pierce”).

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