Captivate

Definition: Captivate

Captivate

Verb

1. Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts".

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

Date "captivate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references)

19th Century Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Captivate

Love

Excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.

Motive

Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).

Pain

Please, charm, delight, becharm, imparadise; gladden; (make cheerful); take, captivate, fascinate; enchant, entrance, enrapture, transport, bewitch; enravish.

Restraint

Arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate.

Gal you captivate my body put me under a spell ("Mr. Boombastic"; performing artist: Shaggy)

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Books

• Hottips for Speakers: 25 Surefire Ways to Engage and Captivate Any Group or Audience (reference)

• Persuasive Platform Presentations: How To Motivate, Captivate and Persuade (reference)

• Plato's Progeny: How Socrates and Plato Still Captivate the Modern Mind (reference)

• Presentations: How to Calm Down, Think Clearly, and Captivate Your Audience (reference)

• Secrets Successful Speakers: How You Can Motivate, Captivate, and Persuade (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Afrikaan

vat (capture, catch, get, grapple, lay, lay hold of, pick, pick up, start off, take), vang (capture, catch, grapple), beetvat (capture, catch, grapple), beetpak (capture, catch, clutch, grapple), beetneem (capture, catch, clutch, fool, grapple, hoax, mystify, take, take in, trick), beetkry (capture, catch, grapple), beetgryp (capture, catch, clutch, grapple). (various references)

Albanian

robëroj (enslave, steal), magjeps (bewitch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, hex, infatuate, ravish, spellbind), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتن (bewitch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, enthralling, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, infatuate, love, magnetize, mesmerize, ravish, rejoice, seduce, smite, spellbind, tempt, thrill, witch), ‏سبى (capture, enchant, take prisoner), ‏أسر (captivity, capture, catch, enthralling, intrigue, prison, seize, seizure, servitude, take, take prisoner). (various references)

Bulgarian 

очаровам (bewitch, charm, delight, ecstasize, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, fascinate, glamor, glamour, ravish, spellbind, take captive), покорявам (bring under, subdue, subject, subjugate, vanquish, win), пленявам (capture, charm, enchant, enslave, fascinate, ravish, snow, take captive, take prisoner). (various references)

Czech

upoutat (become engrossed in reading, capture, catch his eye, fix, grip, tie down), okouzlovat, fascinovat (enthral, enthrall, fascinate, mesmerise, mesmerize). (various references)

Danish

fange (capture, catch, fetch, grapple). (various references)

Dutch

vatten (capture, catch, frame, get, grapple, grasp, lay hold of, pick up, realize, take, understand), vastpakken (capture, catch, grapple), vangen (capture, catch, fish job, fishing, fishing job, grapple), pakken (capture, catch, clutch, get, grapple, lay hold of, pack, package, pick up, take, to bite, to grip, to hold, wrap up), interesseren (interest), belang inboezemen (interest), beetnemen (capture, catch, clutch, fool, grapple, hoax, mystify, take in, trick), beetkrýgen (capture, catch, grapple). (various references)

Faeroese

hava áhuga (interest), handbera (capture, catch, grapple), fanga (capture, catch, grapple). (various references)

Farsi 

فریفتن (Bewitch, Charm, Deceive, Decoy, Doodle, Enchant, Entice, Hustle, Intrigue, Inveigle, Jilt, Lure, Poop, Seduce, Skunk, Tempt, Wile), اسیرکردن (Capture, Enthral), شیفتن (Allure, Charm, Mash). (various references)

Finnish

pyydystää (capture, catch, grapple, snare, to bag, trap), kiinnostaa (interest). (various references)

French

captiver (catch). (various references)

Frisian

fange (capture, catch, grapple). (various references)

German

gefangen nehmen. (various references)

Greek 

σαγηνεύω (allure, enchant, fascinate, wile), ξελογιάζω (entice, seduce, vamp), αιχμαλωτίζω (capture), δελεάζω (allure, bait, blarney, cajole, decoy, ensnare, entice, lure, seduce, tempt). (various references)

Hawaiian

kap (capture, catch, grapple). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשבות לב (entice), לקסום (bewitch, cast a spell on, charm, divine, enchant, fascinate), לצו�" (angle, capture, catch, gun, seize, shoot). (various references)

Hungarian

meghódít (colonize, conquer, to captivate, to conquer), megfog (capture, catch, grapple, grasp, lay hold of, palm, seize, seize on, taken, to clinch, to clutch, to corral, to entrap, to gaff, to grasp, to pin, to seize on, to take, took), lebilincsel, elbájol (charm, enrapture, glamor, glamour, to beguile, to captivate, to enchant, to enrapture, to entrance, to fascinate). (various references)

Indonesian

menarik hati (enchant), memikat (absorb, attract, enamour, lure), membiusi (drug). (various references)

Italian

sedurre (charm, entice, seduce), prendere (assume, be taken, buy, capture, catch, charge, earn, employ, engage, fetch, gather, get, grapple, grasp, grip, have, lay, lay hold of, pick up, seize, subsume, take, take along, to take), interessare (affect, be interested in, be of interest, care, concern, interest, intrigue, matter), attrarre (allure, appeal, attract, catch, draw, to pick up), affascinare (allure, bewitch, catch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, intrigue, lead away, spellbind, take), accattivarsi (conciliate, win). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

惹く (to attract, to captivate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひく (minus, to attract, to captivate, to knock someone down, to play, to pull, to run somebody over, to saw). (various references)

Malay

tangkap (capture, catch, grapple), menangkap (capture, catch, grapple). (various references)

Manx

molley (baffle, bafflement, beguile, bluff, cajole, cheering, deceit, deceive, deception, disappoint, disappointment, foil, fool, impose, imposition, trick), kimmey, cur druiaght er (bewitch). (various references)

Norwegian

gripe (capture, catch, grab, grapple, grasp, grip), fange (capture, catch, convict, grapple). (various references)

Papiamen

kèch (capture, catch, grapple, realize, understand), interesá (be interested, interest, take an interest), fangu (capture, catch, grapple), fango (capture, catch, grapple). (various references)

Pig Latin

aptivatecay

Polish

chwytać, zaciekawiać, łapać. (various references)

Portuguese

cativar (bewitch, catch, charm, conciliate, enamour, encaenia, enthral, enthrall, magnetize, win), fascinar (alluring, becharm, bewitch, charm, entrance examination, fascinate, fascinating, glamor, glamour, lure, magnetize). (various references)

Romanian

cuceri (bear, carry, catch, conquer, fetch, gain, seize, subdue, subject, subjugate, take, vanquish, win), captura (capture, carry the prize, catch, grab, grapple, land, seize, take), captiva (charm, engage, engross, ensnare, fascinate, subjugate, win), subjuga (bend, conquer, enslave, master, overmaster, subdue, subject, subjugate, yoke), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), fermeca (allure, bedevil, bewitch, carry, cast a spell upon, charm, conjure, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fascinate, fetch, lure, smite, spell, spellbind, take), atrage (allure, appeal, attract, bespeak, call, commend, conciliate, court, decoy, draw, draw in, enamor, enamour, engage, entice, fetch, fix, interest, inveigle, lure, magnetize, win), apuca (apprehend, capture, catch, clutch, comprehend, experience, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, nab, nip, pull up, seize, snap, snatch, take), absorbi (absorb, aspirate, engage, engross, fascinate, imbibe, inhale, soak, sponge, suck), încânta (bewitch, charm, delight, delude, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, get over, glamor, glamour, gratify, imparadise, ravish, seduce, smite). (various references)

Russian 

увлекать (fascinate, lead away), очаровывать (charm, enchant, enthral, fascinate, mesmerize, ravish, spellbind), пленять (bewitch). (various references)

Scottish

glac (capture, catch, catch hold of, grapple, hollow, seize, take, valley; hollow of the hand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zarobiti (enslave, take prisoner), zaneti (enthrall, skid, slip), očarati (enthral, enthrall, fascinate, hypnotize, mesmerize, take). (various references)

Spanish

cautivar (attract, chains, enthral, enthrall). (various references)

Sranan

fanga (capture, catch, grapple). (various references)

Swedish

tjusa (allure, beguile, charm, enchant), fängsla (arrest, attract, enchain, engross, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, fetter, grip, gyve, imprison, incarcerate, intrigue, shackle). (various references)

Turkish

cezbetmek (attract, bait, beguile, catch, charm, draw on, engross, fascinate, fetch, hypnotize, lure, magnetize, prepossess, wile), büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch), alakalandirmak (interest), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

Ukranian 

чарувати (attract, charm, enthral, enthrall), тримати в полоні, брати в полон (bag, capture), приваблювати (appeal, attract, commend, court, fetch, incline, lure, magnetize, pull, take, tempt), полонити (bewitch, capture, charm). (various references)

Yucatec

chukik (capture, catch, grapple). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "captivate": captivated, captivates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Captivate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Captiva, captivaste, cativate, cutivate. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: activate, apatetic, capitate, cavitate.

-2 letters: apatite, captive, cavetti.

-3 letters: active, atavic, aviate, capita, cattie, caveat, pattie, tapeta, tipcat, vacate, vittae.

-4 letters: aceta, aecia, apace, attic, cavie, civet, epact, evict, petit, petti, pieta, tacet, tacit, tecta, vatic, vitae, vitta.

-5 letters: acta, atap, cape, cate, cave, cite, epic, etic, paca, pace, pact, pate, pave, peat, pica, pice.

+1 letter: captivated, captivates.

+4 letters: participative.

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