Thesaurus / transfix
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The first time I heard “staircase,” about a disturbing home invasion, the story’s gradually deepening terror had me literally transfixed — physically rooted in place, frozen with fear.
ONE GOOD THING: KNIFEPOINT HORROR, A COLLECTION OF CAMPFIRE GHOST STORIES IN PODCAST FORMAJA ROMANOOCTOBER 29, 2021VOXHe didn’t cover any new ground—in fact, he read the remarks he gave on that day before rushing home from a summit in Peru—but the crowd was transfixed by his cameo.
COLIN POWELL AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF OWNING YOUR MISTAKESPHILIP ELLIOTTOCTOBER 18, 2021TIMEThe impoverished nation of 11 million remained transfixed by questions — including whether the intellectual authors had come from the ranks of Moïse’s more obvious enemies or were potentially far closer to the president.
ASSASSINATION OF HAITIAN PRESIDENT BECOMES COMPLEX INTERNATIONAL WEBWIDLORE MERANCOURT, ANTHONY FAIOLA, RACHEL PANNETT, SHAWN BOBURGJULY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAt first his pride compelled him to try again, but he was soon transfixed by what he was learning about the human body’s extraordinary ability to compensate for its injuries and illnesses.
THE BROKEN FRONT LINEBY AVA KOFMAN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY KENDRICK BRINSON AND DAVID WALTER BANKSAPRIL 7, 2021PROPUBLICATake the syringe in the right hand and with the needle transfix the fold near its base (Fig. 182).
THE ELEMENTS OF BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUEJOHN WILLIAM HENRY EYREIt has not one element that asks the sense of beauty to incorporate it, or challenges the weapon of wit to transfix it.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 85, NOVEMBER, 1864VARIOUSMerle was looking Old Broadbrim squarely in the eye and his gaze seemed to transfix him like a lance.
OLD BROADBRIM INTO THE HEART OF AUSTRALIAAUTHOR OF "OLD BROADBRIM"They stuck out at right angles, seeming to transfix the rigid, death-white hands.
THE MESSENGERELIZABETH ROBINSWhat joy, I thought, would it be to transfix the matchless beauty which had wrought itself thus into the visions of my old age!
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 419, NEW SERIES, JANUARY 10, 1852VARIOUSI heard one of them cry out: 'That mountain of meat is so enormous that I wager my pike could not transfix it.
THE IRON PINCERSEUGNE SUEWORDS RELATED TO TRANSFIX
- advance
- assail
- assault
- attack
- bear down
- boost
- buck
- butt
- chuck
- chunk
- clip
- clout
- crowd
- cut
- dig
- drive
- elbow
- embed
- fire
- force
- heave
- hump
- impale
- impel
- interject
- jab
- jam
- jostle
- lob
- lunge
- nick
- nudge
- peg
- pierce
- pitch
- plunge
- poke
- pour it on
- press
- prod
- propel
- punch
- push forward
- put
- railroad
- ram
- run
- shove
- sink
- sling
- smack
- stab
- stick
- toss
- transfix
- urge
- wham
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