transfix

Her eyes held his, and he was transfixed once more.

For so long now he had been transfixed by the past.

Her eyes were transfixed by the light of the fire.

The girl was transfixed by the door, but the boy seemed to understand.

A year ago a single news photo of him had transfixed her attention.

The woman and the man stood still, as if transfixed.

Those standing with us on the wall heard the sound and were transfixed.

Sometimes children go to bed later than their parents, usually because they are transfixed by television.

All my attention was focused on the people, who seemed to me transfixed.

But most were at least curious, and many seem transfixed.

The woman next to me seemed to be similarly transfixed.

He had never heard an opera before and was transfixed.

But he too, for a moment, was transfixed by the sight.

When it finally came on, we were transfixed to the screen.

And the one subject that transfixes you, more than any other?

I must have stood there for at least ten minutes, quite still as though transfixed.

He put his hand to the spot and stood as if transfixed.

Clark is not the only one who has been transfixed by the field.

He stood for a moment, transfixed, then forced his mind once again into action.

They all saw that her white face was transfixed with terror.

She failed, then gave it up, transfixed by new information.

He stood transfixed, unable to take his eyes away from the light.

For a moment, she was transfixed, frozen by his action.

But soon after they started out, something even more bizarre had them transfixed.

Until then we had been transfixed, but now panic took some of us.

Would that ten hostile spears Might his perfidious heart transfix, the traitor!

Night and its murk transfix and pin me, Staring through thousands of binoculars.

Similarly, another difference transfixes hold from other affixes is that the individual components of the transfix are meaningless on their own.

A transfix is not a combination of prefixes, suffixes, and infixes, but its own unique structure which is split through a word.

Transfixes are different than prefixes, suffixes, and infixes in that a complete transfix is the entire structure which is placed into a root.

In linguistic morphology, a transfix is a discontinuous affix which is inserted into a word root, as in root-and-pattern systems of morphology, like those of many Semitic languages.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow.