0 past simple and past participle of captivate
1 to hold the attention of someone by being extremely interesting, exciting, pleasant, or attractive:
With her beauty and charm, she captivated film audiences everywhere.
All of us are captivated by media representations of scenes we would never look at twice in real life.
He would capture the heart of the young woman who has captivated his own.
While she may well have been captivated by his views, a critical attitude would have been more revealing.
I was totally captivated with the hypothesis that there was some built-in syllabus or innate language acquisition device that would account for the common features of learners' interlanguage.
Having no previous close professional or personal interest in the subject, he became captivated by the question of secrecy and openness in adoption, which became the theme of the book.
Creatures that can conceptualize alternative paths for fulfilling desires, have brain processes that can intend to act much more than organisms thoroughly captivated by their affectively rich intentions in action.
Curious and captivated by the knowledge of the ' 'whiteman' ', the parents sent their children to school.
The early decades of the nineteenth century were captivated by phrenology that purported to be a 'science' of character as interpreted through the shape and size of the skull.
