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- noun Plural form of
transfix . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
transfix .
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Examples
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A Canadian sword transfixes the Hydra, and over the design is the Latin phrase "ADVERSUS MALUM PUGNAMUS" We are fighting evil.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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Hayao Miyazaki, like the best directors, transfixes viewers in the moment and guides them under his spell.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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What is it about the way the ocean moves, reflects, glimmers and glows that mesmerizes and transfixes us?
Wallace J Nichols: Why Do We Love To Stare At the Sea? Wallace J Nichols 2011
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He physically transfixes fans including the 20,000 he had appeared before the night of the supposed encounter and who spent the length of the concert shrieking and crying his name.
Cristina Page: The Sex Education of Justin Bieber Cristina Page 2011
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TV Guide Magazine: What is it about these two ridiculously dysfunctional characters that so transfixes the audience?
General Hospital's Maurice Benard Dishes the Sonny-Brenda Nuptials 2011
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He physically transfixes fans including the 20,000 he had appeared before the night of the supposed encounter and who spent the length of the concert shrieking and crying his name.
Cristina Page: The Sex Education of Justin Bieber Cristina Page 2011
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In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity.
4th of July by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro: Book summary 2010
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He physically transfixes fans including the 20,000 he had appeared before the night of the supposed encounter and who spent the length of the concert shrieking and crying his name.
Cristina Page: The Sex Education of Justin Bieber Cristina Page 2011
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Or, if that fails, making his haircut so stupid that it transfixes his enemies for so long that they eventually clatter into a lamppost.
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The picture transfixes us because it looks like the truth, but, looking at it, we can only imagine what that truth is: torture, execution, a scene staged for the camera?
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