Transfix

Synonyms for "transfix" (88 found)

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Verb(1 words)
empale

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Verb(3 words)
poachspellbindspike

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Translations

32 translations across 11 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • գամել verb (to render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • приковавам verb (to fix or impale)
  • пробождам verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)
  • пронизвам verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 插綴 /插缀 noun (a discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Afro-Asiatic languages)

Finnish

2 entries
  • lävistää verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)
  • lävistää verb (to fix or impale)

French

1 entries
  • méduser verb (to render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe)

German

4 entries
  • Ehrfurcht einflößen verb (to render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe)
  • aufspießen verb (to fix or impale)
  • durchbohren verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)
  • durchstechen verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)

Greek

4 entries
  • ανασκολοπίζω verb (to fix or impale)
  • διατρυπώ verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)
  • καθηλώνω verb (to render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe)
  • καρφώνω verb (to fix or impale)

Latin

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  • transfīgō verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)

Russian

1 entries
  • пронза́ть verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)

Spanish

4 entries
  • transfijo noun (a discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Afro-Asiatic languages)
  • transfijar verb (to render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe)
  • transfijar verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)
  • transfijar verb (to fix or impale)

Swedish

4 entries
  • lamslå verb (to render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe)
  • paralysera verb (to render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe)
  • spetsa verb (to pierce with a sharp pointed weapon)
  • spetsa verb (to fix or impale)

Sample sentences

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Without his spear, he is unable to transfix the kangaroos and wallabies on which he so much depends for his daily food, and, robbed of his boomerangs and nullah-nullahs, the wild duck can pass him scatheless, and the cockatoo can scream defiance from the lofty trees.

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He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.

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But we may as well accept her story as true, for it is likely she would have been transfixed by the narcissism of the weight lifters.

Source: wiktionary

The spear transfixed my arm that was uplifted In swift expostulation, and the blood Gushed round its point: I smiled, […]

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