Spellbound
['spelbaʊnd] or ['spɛlbaʊnd]
Definition
(a.) Bound by, or as by, a spell.
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Examples
- Tarzan was spellbound. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The blacks, their eyes protruding in horror, watched spellbound. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The spectators seemed spellbound, for no shouts or exclamations were heard, as all watched anxiously the silent course of the heavily freighted pontoons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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