as in to stab
to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object
transfixed the inanimate butterfly specimens to the collection board
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A gateway to mind-bending dreams, these strange, sinister, and spellbinding toons will surely transfix you.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
The grandiose display transfixed Trump, who came back to Washington and was set on organizing his own version.
—Time, 15 June 2025
Investors are also transfixed by nuclear power, Cramer said, as energy-guzzling data centers continue to spring up.
—Julie Coleman, CNBC, 11 June 2025
His eyes become transfixed again by the beauty of the dome, its magnificent architecture.
—Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
The grandiose display transfixed Trump, who came back to Washington and was set on organizing his own version.
—Time, 15 June 2025
Investors are also transfixed by nuclear power, Cramer said, as energy-guzzling data centers continue to spring up.
—Julie Coleman, CNBC, 11 June 2025
His eyes become transfixed again by the beauty of the dome, its magnificent architecture.
—Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfix
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Early morning stabbing in Downtown Pittsburgh sends one person to hospital Food & Drink Product Recall Walmart Kroger Mary Cunningham Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
18 June 2025
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Pau-Figueroa pulled out a knife, stabbing Rodriguez in the head and cutting Crespo Herrera on his arm, per the arrest affidavit.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
17 June 2025
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In a completely spontaneous decision, Flom sat down and got one of his ears pierced with a sparkling stud, and Haven’s reaction was priceless.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
15 June 2025
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She was never seen alive again A handsome stranger with piercing blue eyes asked them for rides.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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At his best, Towns shoots like an archer, drives to the hoop like a rugby bruiser, and glides on his pivot foot, one smooth semicircle after another, like a grade-school protractor with its point puncturing the paper.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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The dura can be damaged from head injuries or punctured during surgical procedures involving the sinuses, brain or spine, such as lumbar puncture, epidurals, spinal anesthesia or myelogram.—
Danielle Wilhour,
The Conversation,
28 May 2025
Verb
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Premium frozen fruit, picked and frozen at peak ripeness, is often better than fresh fruit.—
Carolynn Carreño,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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These kids would be walking around down the road and the F.B.I. would pick them up and take them down to the jail to be interrogated, then tell them to walk home.—
Nick Estes,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
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Jeannot didn’t stick in Tampa and has never come close to matching that one wild season, in part because his opportunity, both with the Lightning and the Kings, plummeted.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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And while other candidates have brought up the allegations and hit at Cuomo's record, no one attack seems to be sticking, and polling shows that Cuomo remains the front-runner.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
4 June 2025
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The 45-year-old victim was jabbed once by an assailant around 6:29 p.m. on Laconia Ave.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
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Glasner quite frequently does a sort of pointy thing, jabbing his finger at the south London air, when Crystal Palace score.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
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“Transfix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfix. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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