0 past simple and past participle of rivet
1 to fasten parts together with a rivet:
It was an amazing film - I was absolutely riveted.
His eyes were riveted on the television.
He pulled out a gun and I was riveted to the spot (= so frightened that I could not move).
Most of the vessels were built from welded steel, not riveted, and were equipped with powerful diesel engines.
Additional lawyers cited statutes and precedents in opposition and it was the larger constitutional issue that riveted their attention.
This, combined with an ethical distaste for genetics, fortified a science of development that riveted its attention on the social environment.
To hear a song again is not only to hear structure but that structure as totally fixed and riveted to larger auditory scaffolding.
Thus, these events become memorable, that is, available for recollection or riveted to consciousness, by being stitched together with music.
It particularly riveted me because it was clearly directed at me.
The sound and other technicians were listening, riveted, to that broadcast.
The specification admits of welded or of riveted construction, or a combination of both, to suit the capacity of individual manufacturers.
