Usually means: Captivating attention completely; utterly fascinating.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. transfixing: Merriam-Webster
  2. transfixing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. transfixing: Vocabulary.com
  4. transfixing: Wordnik
  5. transfixing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. transfixing: Wiktionary
  7. transfixing: Dictionary.com
  8. Transfixing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Transfixing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. transfixing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. transfixing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. transfixing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transfixing: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. transfixing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. transfixing: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (transfix)

verb:  (transitive) To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
verb:  (transitive) To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
verb:  (transitive) To fix or impale.
noun:  (linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic languages.
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