Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective held in slavery.
  • adjective filled with wonder and delight.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of enthrall.

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  • adjective filled with wonder and delight

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Examples

  • Yet Tea Party acolytes remain enthralled by those who are selling them a bill of goods to build their own ratings, their electoral prospects or their speaker fees -- with little regard for whether they are leading America further down a path of cynicism, and contributing to the further dysfunction of a political system that seems incapable of addressing the real and deepening problems that we face.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • Yet Tea Party acolytes remain enthralled by those who are selling them a bill of goods to build their own ratings, their electoral prospects or their speaker fees -- with little regard for whether they are leading America further down a path of cynicism, and contributing to the further dysfunction of a political system that seems incapable of addressing the real and deepening problems that we face.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • Yet Tea Party acolytes remain enthralled by those who are selling them a bill of goods to build their own ratings, their electoral prospects or their speaker fees -- with little regard for whether they are leading America further down a path of cynicism, and contributing to the further dysfunction of a political system that seems incapable of addressing the real and deepening problems that we face.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • Yet Tea Party acolytes remain enthralled by those who are selling them a bill of goods to build their own ratings, their electoral prospects or their speaker fees -- with little regard for whether they are leading America further down a path of cynicism, and contributing to the further dysfunction of a political system that seems incapable of addressing the real and deepening problems that we face.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • Yet Tea Party acolytes remain enthralled by those who are selling them a bill of goods to build their own ratings, their electoral prospects or their speaker fees -- with little regard for whether they are leading America further down a path of cynicism, and contributing to the further dysfunction of a political system that seems incapable of addressing the real and deepening problems that we face.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • A novel that will hold the reader enthralled from the first to the last sentence.

    No Safe Place: Summary and book reviews of No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson. 1998

  • Even his haughty, sullen expression enthralled her.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • I spent most of my career in Arizona dealing with a legislature out there which has not incorrectly been characterized as enthralled with special interests.

    Vp Gore And Secretary Babbitt Briefing ITY National Archives 1995

  • London, a marvellous fairyland to her; tell her of "rags" in which he had played the leading part; of things he had done when he was in Rio for three months -- Rio! the very name enthralled her!

    Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

  • DuBois, who had become an associate pastor at a small evangelical church while still an undergrad at Boston University, says he was "enthralled" by Obama's references to faith.

    Obama’s New Gospel 2008

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