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.
I watched it and was captivated observing the finer points of his delivery.
There he was so captivated by the paintings that he started taking an interest in art, culture and history.
We were captivated as layer after layer, like an onion, was peeled away from one financial perk after another.
He made one statement that captivated my attention when he said that these circumstances are more of challenge than of crisis.
I am afraid that, as a general rule, we are bored with other people's speeches and captivated with our own.
He may have been the one who was captivated by the figure 72.
I can still recall the collective gasp of horror, as well as the outbursts of laughter, that the story's denouement elicited from a captivated company of listeners.
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.
