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enraptured

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verb

past tense of enrapture

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of enraptured
Verb
Daniel Day-Lewis plays Newland Archer, an attorney engaged to ingenue de la saison May Welland (Winona Ryder) but enraptured by outspoken Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enraptured
Adjective
  • The prose is ecstatic and freaky and muscular.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • If this game was a sign of things to come, Green Bay fans should be ecstatic.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • First, exploratory roundtables with UK directors across sectors, identifying how executives thought about GenAI—what excited them, what worried them.
    London Business School, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some users are excited by the new focus on active members, while others are frustrated with the move.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wilson has been delighted at the response her video has gotten.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Business interests were delighted by the bill’s defeat.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Today's talkers Travis Kelce is giddy.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The result is a sturdy uptrend, full valuations, hopeful but not overly giddy investor sentiment and solid credit conditions.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • White’s anthology series has entranced viewers since its premiere in 2021.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Six-year-old Beney, and her mum, were entranced.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Magnitude had descended in the track’s estimation from the 2-1 morning line by post time to go off at 7-2, but Bracket Buster, who went off at 17-1 to place, pleased his trainer Victoria Oliver by stepping smartly out of the pack to challenge Sovereignty briefly at the top of the stretch.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • His effort to schmaltz Putin with a display of royal pageantry obviously pleased this murderous dictator to no end.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Both are intoxicated, and Roman agrees, but Dennis gets caught up in the moment and starts sucking on Roman’s toes.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The trooper spotted a silver Chevrolet Tahoe traveling north and suspected the driver was intoxicated because the SUV allegedly failed to stay in a single lane and almost struck the guardrail in the area multiple times.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But the idea has always fascinated him.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • So that image has always fascinated me.
    Maria Reva September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Enraptured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enraptured. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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