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Spellbound   /spˈɛlbˌaʊnd/   Listen
Spellbound

adjective
1.
Having your attention fixated as though by a spell.  Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, transfixed.



Spellbind

verb
(past & past part. spellbound; pres. part. spellbinding)
1.
To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe.  Synonyms: fascinate, grip, transfix.
2.
Attract strongly, as if with a magnet.  Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize.
3.
Put into a trance.  Synonym: entrance.



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"Spellbound" Quotes from Famous Books



... sitting on the bottom step of the Green Stairs with Georgina beside him, telling the most thrilling pirate story he knew. And he told it more thrillingly than he had ever told it before. The reason for this was he had never had such a spellbound listener before. Not even Justin had hung on each word with the rapt interest this boy showed. His dark eyes seemed to grow bigger and more luminous with each sentence, more intense in their piercing gaze. His sensitive mouth changed expression with ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston

... talked of Balderson for United States Senator, and, at the laying of the corner-stone of the capitol, the Denver papers spoke of the masterly oration of former Governor Balderson of Kansas, whose marvellous word-painting of the Battle of Look Out Mountain held the vast audience spellbound for an hour. A few months later a cloudburst carried away the Big Burro dam, and times went bad, and the stockholders in Balderson's company, who would have rebuilt the dam, could not find Balderson when they ...
— In Our Town • William Allen White

... mile or so the boy sat spellbound, drinking in the casual comments of "Scotty" upon the dogs in the team, as if they were pearls of wisdom dropping from the lips of an Oracle. He was not so much interested in the Woman's replies, for they displayed a lack of technical information that contrasted unfavorably in the boy's ...
— Baldy of Nome • Esther Birdsall Darling

... was beginning to frighten Claire, he began again. At first his words were indistinct, but as she leaned closer, they cleared of guttural sounds. She listened spellbound. ...
— Claire - The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author • Leslie Burton Blades

... near him, spellbound by the animation of his face, the seeming reality of his plea. He was not a singer; he was the ...
— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge


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