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# transfixed

«transfixed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Held completely still by fear, wonder or surprise** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more transfixed, most transfixed; also the past form of transfix)

### meaning for a pupil

Held completely still by fear, wonder or surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfixed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a character stands transfixed when they see something amazing or terrible.

### examples

- She stood transfixed as the king's magic appeared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfixed/#x1)
- The crowd was transfixed by the bright show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfixed/#x2)
- He was transfixed with fear at the sound in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfixed/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transfixed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfixed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.