Transfix is to pierce with something pointed, or to cause someone to become motionless as they concentrate on someone or something either in a good way or a bad way.
(verb)See transfix in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
Origin: < L transfixus, pp. of transfigere, to transfix < trans-, trans- + figere, to fix
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See transfix in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb trans·fixed, trans·fix·ing, trans·fix·es
Origin:
Origin: Latin trānsfīgere, trānsfīx-
Origin: : trāns-, trans-
Origin: + fīgere, to pierce, fasten; see dhīgw- in Indo-European roots
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