Transfix

Definition: Transfix

Transfix

Verb

1. To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe: "The eye of the Ancient Mariner fascinated the wedding guest." Burton; "The serpent fascinates its prey,..by the power of his eyes." Todd & Bowman.

2. Pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "transfix" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Transfix \Trans*fix"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Transfixed; present participle verb or noun Transfixing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Transfix

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Crosswords: Transfix

Albanian

shpoj tejpërtej (transpierce). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, traverse), ‏حجر (congeal, fossilize, harden, petrify, quarantine, scree, sear, send, stone), ‏طعن (aspersion, impale, jab, jag, knife, libel, pike, put a knife into smb., put off, recourse, remedy, slander, stab, strike, thrust, thrusting), ‏ثبت في المكان, ‏شل (benumb, cripple, numb, paralyse, paralyze, stalemate, wither). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слисвам (amaze, bemuse, boggle, bowl over, flabbergast, startle, stun), карам да онемее, заковавам на място, заковавам (board, board up, fasten with nails, fix, immobilize, nail, nail down), пронизвам (impale, peg at, penetrate, rend, search, shoot through, spear, strike, thrust through, transpierce), пробождам (impale, jab, prong, puncture, run through, skewer, stick, thrust through), продупчвам (broach, nip, perforate, punch). (various references)

Czech

probodnout (impale, Pierce, Pike, pink, prick, stab, stick), ohromit (amaze, astound, bewilder, confound, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, strike dumb, stun, stupefy). (various references)

Farsi 

میخکوب کردن (Spike), مبهوت کردن (Amaze, Astound, Disconcert), سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Scuttle, Slot, Spit, Stab, Steek, Stick, Thrust), درجای خودخشک شدن . (various references)

French

transpercer, pétrifier. (various references)

German

feststecken (to pin), durchstechen (cut through, Pierce, prick, puncture, run through, stab, stick through, to transfix, transfixes), durchbohren (bore, drill through, Gore, pierce, puncture, run through, spear, Spike, to transfix), annageln (nail on, nail up, tack on, to nail on). (various references)

Greek 

TRANSFIX, καθηλώ (rivet), διατρυπώ (bore, impale, perforate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשתק (neutralize, paralyse, paralyze, shut down). (various references)

Hungarian

átszúr (penetrate, to needle, to pierce, to preen, to prick, to prod, to stab, to stake, transpierce), átdöf (stab, to pierce, to pin, to preen, to transfix). (various references)

Italian

trapassare (Pierce), trafiggere (Pierce, pierce through, spear, stab), pietrificare (become petrified), infilzare (run through, stick, string), infilare (enfilade, insert, penetrate, plug, poke, pop, run through, slip, slip on, squeeze, stick, string, thread, thread one's way, tuck). (various references)

Manx

towley (bore, boring, broach, drilling, hole, undermine), seiy (agitate, bear down, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, litter, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stab, stick, stir, stir up, thrust, tilt, tilting). (various references)

Pig Latin

ansfixtray.(various references)

Portuguese

trespassar (spit, stab, thrust, transpierce), transfixar, pregar ao chão, petrificar (calcify, fossilize, petrify), atravessar (cross, divide, divvy, fish, go through, intersect, jab, overpass, pass, pass over, penetrate, perambulate, permeate, pervade, pierce, roam, spit, survive, thrust, travel, traverse, trespass). (various references)

Romanian

strãpunge (Gore, penetrate, perforate, Pierce, pin, pink, puncture, Ray, riddle, stab, tunnel), paraliza (cripple, crush, cut, hough, neutralize, palsy, paralyse, paralyze), imobiliza (hold, immobilize). (various references)

Russian 

пронзать (gride, impale, spear, speared, spearing). (various references)

Scottish

torchair, s� th (fill, insert, plenty, satisfaction, thrust). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapanjiti (astound, boggle, dumbfound, flabbergast, stupefy), ucveliti (bereave), probosti (jab, lance, run through, stab, transpierce), prikovati (pin down), duboko dirnuti. (various references)

Spanish

traspasar (dispose of, give over, give up, overstep, transfer, transgress, turn over). (various references)

Swedish

genomborra (pierce, riddle, spear, stab). (various references)

Turkish

mıhlamak (nail), kazığa oturtturmak, delip geçmek (Pierce, thrust through). (various references)

Turkmen 

зьmmek (plunge, thrust). (various references)

Ukrainian

простромлювати, приголомшити (numb, wow). (various references)

Welsh

trywanu (pierce, stab). (various references)

configatur, confige, configent, configere, configet, configitis, configitur, confixerint, confixerunt, confiximus, confixus, figam, figebant, figens, figent, figentes, figere, figet, figitur, fixa, fixam, fixerat, fixere, fixeris, fixeritis, fixerunt, fixi, fixis, fixit, fixum, fixus, traieci, transfigat, transfixus, transfodit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "transfix": transfixed, transfixes, transfixing, transfixion, transfixions, transfixt. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Transfix" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: transair, transfect, transfit, transic, transpix, Tranzair. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: afrits, faints, instar, santir, strain, trains.

-3 letters: afrit, airns, airts, antis, astir, faint, fairs, fiars, fiats, firns, first, frats, frits, infra, naifs, naris, rafts, rains, ranis, rants, riant, rifts, saint, sarin, satin, sitar, stain, stair, stria, tains, tarns, tarsi, taxis, train, trans.

-4 letters: ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anis, anti, ants, arfs, arts.

+1 letter: transfixt.

+2 letters: transfixed, transfixes.

+3 letters: transfixing, transfixion.

+4 letters: transfixions.