Spellbind

Definition: Spellbind

Spellbind

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

3. Put into a trance.

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

Note: Spellbind \Spell"bind`\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Spellbound; present participle verb or noun Spellbinding.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Spellbind

Albanian

magjeps (bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, hex, infatuate, ravish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتن (bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, enthralling, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, infatuate, love, magnetize, mesmerize, ravish, rejoice, seduce, smite, tempt, thrill, witch), ‏مارس السحر (charm, conjure, hex), ‏سحر (attractiveness, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchment, catch, charm, conjure, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, magnetize, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, overlook, pleasantness, prestige, quaintness, ravishment, relish, smite, sorcery, spell, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest). (various references)

Bulgarian 

очаровам (bewitch, captivate, charm, delight, ecstasize, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, fascinate, glamor, glamour, ravish, take captive), омагьосвам (bedevil, bewitch, charm, enchant, glamor, glamour, hoodoo, voodoo, witch). (various references)

Czech

okouzlit (beguile, bewitch, charm, enamor, enamour, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, glamorize, spell, transport), oèarovat (bewitch, enchant, witch). (various references)

French

subjuguer, jeter un sort � qn, fasciner, ensorceler (spell). (various references)

German

binden (bandages, bind, binders, bond, braid, connect, fasciae, hoop, join, knot, leash, ligate, ligatures, link, moor, slur, spellbound, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, to tie, unite). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"קסים (cast a spell on, charm, enchant, fascinate, fetch, ravish), לרתק (bind, enchant, join, pin, tie up). (various references)

Hungarian

megbabonázás. (various references)

Italian

incantare (be charmed, be spellbound, bewitch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, spell), affascinare (allure, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, intrigue, lead away, take). (various references)

Pig Latin

ellbindspay

Romanian

vrãji (allure, bedevil, bewitch, cast a glamour over, cast a spell upon, charm, enchant, enrapture, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, lure, spell), fermeca (allure, bedevil, bewitch, captivate, carry, cast a spell upon, charm, conjure, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fascinate, fetch, lure, smite, spell, take). (various references)

Russian 

очаровывать (captivate, charm, enchant, enthral, fascinate, mesmerize, ravish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

opčiniti (enchant, fascinate, mesmerize). (various references)

Swedish

förtrolla (bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, enthrall, fascinate, infatuate). (various references)

Turkish

etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, sway, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head), büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, voodoo, witch). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spellbind": spellbinder, spellbinders, spellbinding, spellbindingly, spellbinds. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bindles, spilled, spindle, splined.

-3 letters: bields, billed, bindle, bipeds, blends, blinds, dispel, libels, lisped, nilled, pensil, pilled, sliped, sniped, spiled, spined, spinel, spline.

-4 letters: bells, bends, bides, bield, biles, bills, binds, bines, biped, blend, blind, blips, deils, delis, dells, dills, dines, idles, isled, lends, lenis, libel, liens, lined, lines, lisle, nides, nills, peins.

+1 letter: spellbinds.

+2 letters: spellbinder.

+3 letters: speedballing, spellbinders, spellbinding.

+4 letters: disciplinable.

+5 letters: spellbindingly.