spellbound

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• hold: For fifty years, Peter Brook's opera, stage, and film productions have held audiences spellbound.

Modifies a noun

• audience: An acknowledged top class photographer, his slide shows were enthusiastically received by a spellbound audience.
• recording: Spellbound MP3 music download Size: 3 kb; Last updated 28 Oct 2005 Spellbound Irish recording for download.
• child: Seated on a log in a small dell she was surrounded by a crowd of spellbound children listening to her tales.

Used with adjective complement

• sit: Children adore her and sit spellbound as she performs her magic.
• hold: This time I was held spellbound for two hours.
• stand: It was a scene brilliant enough to fascinate anyone, and the two eggs stood spellbound while their eyes feasted upon the unusual sight.
• become: I stumbled across it by chance and became completely spellbound - I read it from start to finish in a period of 24hrs!