Lexic.us

Definition of Spellbind

1. Verb. To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe. "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"

2. Verb. Attract strongly, as if with a magnet. "She magnetized the audience with her tricks"

3. Verb. Put into a trance. "The performance is likely to spellbind Sue"

Definition of Spellbind

1. v. t. To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign.

Definition of Spellbind

1. Verb. To attract one's attention as if by a magic spell. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spellbind

1. [v -BOUND, -BINDING, -BINDS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spellbind

spell-check spell-checker spell-off spell-offs spell-work spell check spell checker spell checkers spell off spell offs

spell out spell work spellable spellathon spellathons spellbind (current term) spellbinder spellbinders spellbinding spellbindingly

spellbinds spellbook spellbooks spellbound spellcaster spellcasters spellcheck spellchecked spellchecker spellcheckers

Literary usage of Spellbind

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Could you ever spellbind man into a Scholar merely, so that he had nothing to discover, to correct; could you ever establish a Theory of the Universe that ..."

2. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... Odin is represented as boasting the magic power of the Runic rhymes to heal diseases and counteract poison ; to spellbind the arms of an enemy ; to lull ..."

3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"•pell, п.: round, period, turn. •pell, п.: ft. spell, 1.1.: relieve. •pell, vt: bewitch. spellbind: bewitch. spellbound: bewitched, ..."

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