0 to make a person or animal unable to move or stop looking at something because they are so interested, surprised, or frightened:
The conference delegates were transfixed by her speech.
1 to push a long, pointed object through someone or something:
Indeed, the world stood transfixed, unable to comprehend the horror unfolding before our very eyes.
They are transfixed and rendered incapable by the desperate prospect of defeat that inexorably comes closer every day.
I think one can get too transfixed with the idea of cutting imports.
There are some advantages in having one's eyes transfixed on the pavement in an attempt to avoid the dog mess.
He seems to be transfixed.
The papers stated that weeping could be heard in the court and that the prisoner stood transfixed as if he was incapable of realising what was happening.
Sentences poured forth in mellifluous constructions complicated enough to test the listeners intelligence and simultaneously leave him transfixed by the speaker's virtuosity.
Throughout it he remains transfixed and visibly relives the moment while it is retold.
