0 having your attention completely held by something, so that you cannot think about anything else:
1 having your attention completely held by something, so that you cannot think about anything else:
All of the theatre students were spellbound, nobody had ever shown them such things.
I have been spellbound by those gentlemen at home exhibitions who demonstrate with surprising skill various gadgets which, of course, the mere male buys immediately.
No longer can the high priests of technology hold the rest of us spellbound and merely credulous.
He held himself spellbound by some of the most awful codswallop.
We are listening spellbound with fascination to the catalogue that he is reading with such aplomb.
Let me make it clear that the recent increase in appreciation of our difficulties leaves me personally spellbound.
He kept us spellbound, not because we were altogether in agreement with him, but by the way he put the case as he sees it.
We were all spellbound by it.