Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Entranced by or as if by a spell; fascinated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bound by or as if by a spell; entranced; rapt; fascinated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bound by, or as by, a spell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Fascinated by something;entranced as if by aspell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having your attention fixated as though by a spell
- adjective having your attention fixated as though by a spell
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Examples
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Yeah, we stood around in spellbound silence while that demo was going on Paul.
Interactive Smart board demo at OpenCoffee Limerick (video) 2008
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A couple weeks ago, I finished reading his American Gods, a fascinating story of myth and fantasy that kept spellbound from the first page to the last one.
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A couple weeks ago, I finished reading his American Gods, a fascinating story of myth and fantasy that kept spellbound from the first page to the last one.
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The yard was full of people, but nobody had as yet said a word; awe and wonder held everybody in spellbound silence.
Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912
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I wasn't prepared to be quite as "spellbound" as Philip Pullman with The Seeing Stone because blurb hyperbole is starting to draw my attention lately and the book also had the pre-requisite word "Guardian" on the front cover.
The Seeing Stone 2007
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Philip Pullman was "spellbound", Anne Fine was "so so jealous" and I was just mesmerised, start to finish.
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I wasn't prepared to be quite as "spellbound" as Philip Pullman with The Seeing Stone because blurb hyperbole is starting to draw my attention lately and the book also had the pre-requisite word "Guardian" on the front cover.
The Seeing Stone 2007
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Philip Pullman was "spellbound", Anne Fine was "so so jealous" and I was just mesmerised, start to finish.
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Philip Pullman was "spellbound", Anne Fine was "so so jealous" and I was just mesmerised, start to finish.
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I wasn't prepared to be quite as "spellbound" as Philip Pullman with The Seeing Stone because blurb hyperbole is starting to draw my attention lately and the book also had the pre-requisite word "Guardian" on the front cover.
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