Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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enthrall .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
hold spellbound ; tobewitch ,charm orcaptivate . - verb transitive To make
subservient ; toenslave orsubjugate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb hold spellbound
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Examples
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Still, Buscemi's complex performance is enough to enthral from the get-go.
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Charles Arthur: CES opening speech fails to enthral audience, while lack of tablets and emphasis on Windows points to future direction reliant on existing cash cow
CES 2011: Fulton Innovations is ready to cook your food - wirelessly 2011
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It could also provide the key to understanding his passion for food that is on the frontier, rather than the well-established cuisines that enthral most of the rest of us.
The Art and Craft of Modernist Cooking Bruce Palling 2011
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For uninterested spectators scattered about the arena, they are also a distraction from tennis that does not consistently enthral at this Cincinnati Masters, an old tournament admirably spruced up and repackaged to make a fit with the run-in to the US Open.
Andy Murray snuffs out recovery by Jérémy Chardy to win in Cincinnati 2010
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He's little more than a glorified motivational speaker holding all the media in adulated enthral.
Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate 2008
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An engrossing, intricate story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by richly imaginative characters' -- Carousel '... wholly engaging and rushes along as a breathless and nail-biting pace ... a gripping read that should enthral both young and old fans' -- Buzz
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So, at first they tried Strictly Ballroom Badgers, but there were some badgers which did not have the necessary terpsichorean abilities to perform a solo dance routine to even the mediocre standard necessary to enthral an early evening TV audience enough for those viewers to start making the necessary lucrative phone calls to the TV station.
Small Woodland Creatures On Ice David Hadley 2009
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So, at first they tried Strictly Ballroom Badgers, but there were some badgers which did not have the necessary terpsichorean abilities to perform a solo dance routine to even the mediocre standard necessary to enthral an early evening TV audience enough for those viewers to start making the necessary lucrative phone calls to the TV station.
Archive 2009-03-01 David Hadley 2009
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Theroux may be revisiting well-trodden terrain, but he hasn't lost any of his insight or power to enthral.
The Elephanta Suite: Summary and book reviews of The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux. 2007
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An engrossing, intricate story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by richly imaginative characters' -- Carousel '... wholly engaging and rushes along as a breathless and nail-biting pace ... a gripping read that should enthral both young and old fans' -- Buzz
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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