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FASCINATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having your attention fixated as though by a spell
Synonyms:
fascinated; hypnotised; hypnotized; mesmerised; mesmerized; spell-bound; spellbound; transfixed
Classified under:
Similar:
enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fascinate
Context examples:
He fascinated me immeasurably, and I feared him immeasurably.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They sat at the table with bodies tense, their eyes fixed in a fascinated gaze upon the murderer.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He had liked women in that turgid past of his, and been fascinated by some of them, but he had not known what it was to love them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
We were all fascinated to see them take the dive, even when we thought it would be our turn next on the spring-board.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I doubted not—never doubted—that if Mr. Reed had been alive he would have treated me kindly; and now, as I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed walls—occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaming mirror—I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode—whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed—and rise before me in this chamber.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
How many children Sophy could have taken care of in her time, I can't imagine; but she seemed to be famous for knowing every sort of song that ever was addressed to a child in the English tongue; and she sang dozens to order with the clearest little voice in the world, one after another (every sister issuing directions for a different tune, and the Beauty generally striking in last), so that I was quite fascinated.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He shook his head and beckoned her to come away, but she was fascinated just then by the freedom of Speculative Philosophy, and kept her seat, trying to find out what the wise gentlemen intended to rely upon after they had annihilated all the old beliefs.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I must say that I was fascinated by the perfect lines of Wolf Larsen’s figure, and by what I may term the terrible beauty of it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Levers and purchases fascinated him, and his mind roved backward to hand-spikes and blocks and tackles at sea.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I should have loved him so well still—though he fascinated me no longer—I should have held in so much tenderness the memory of my affection for him, that I think I should have been as weak as a spirit-wounded child, in all but the entertainment of a thought that we could ever be re-united.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
