Fascinate

Definitions: Fascinate

Fascinate

Verb

1. Cause to be interested or curious.

2. 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.

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

Date "fascinate" was first used: 1598. (references)

Note: Fascinate \Fas"ci*nate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Fascinated, p. pr. vb. noun. Fascinating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Fascinate

Synonyms: becharm (v), beguile (v), bewitch (v), captivate (v), capture (v), catch (v), charm (v), enamor (v), enamour (v), enchant (v), entrance (v), grip (v), intrigue (v), spellbind (v), trance (v), transfix (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitation	Fascinate; enrapture; (give pleasure).
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.
Sorcery	Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.
Wonder	Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fascinate

English words defined with "fascinate": Enravish ♦ Sirenize. (references)

Etymologies containing "fascinate": Fascinous. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You know, you're beginning to fascinate me, and I resent that in any man. (The Gay Divorcee; writing credit: J. Hartley Manners; Dwight Taylor)
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Domain	Title
Books	Fascinate Mundo De LA Biblia: Story of the Bible World (reference) How to Find & Fascinate a Mistress (reference) The Career Resource Library Set: Exciting Jobs to Stimulate and Fascinate (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Francis Bacon	None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fascinate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 61.02% of the time. "Fascinate" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	61.02%	36	57,479
Lexical Verb (base form)	38.98%	23	72,767
Total	100.00%	59	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fascinate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		fassineer. (various references)

Albanian		shtang (astound, dumbfound, knock out, paralyse, paralyze, petrify), magjeps (bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, hex, infatuate, ravish, spellbind). (various references)

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

Bulgarian		очаровам (bewitch, captivate, charm, delight, ecstasize, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, glamor, glamour, ravish, spellbind, take captive), омайвам (charm, enchant, enthral, entrance, glamor, glamour, infatuate), обайвам (enrapture, magnetize), пленявам (captivate, capture, charm, enchant, enslave, ravish, snow, take captive, take prisoner). (various references)

Chinese		迷住 . (various references)

Czech		fascinovat (captivate, enthral, enthrall, mesmerise, mesmerize), uchvátit (carry away, catch up, electrify, enthral, enthrall, grip, ravish, usurp), oslnit (blind, daze, dazzle), okouzlit (beguile, bewitch, charm, enamor, enamour, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, glamorize, spell, spellbind, transport). (various references)

Dutch		fascineren, betoveren (bewitch, delude). (various references)

Esperanto		fascini. (various references)

Finnish		viehättää (charm), tenhota (charm, enchant), kiehtoa (captivate), ihastuttaa (charm, delight), hurmata (captivate, charm, delight, enrapture). (various references)

French		fasciner. (various references)

Frisian		fassinearje. (various references)

German		faszinieren (captivate, intrigue, mesmerize), bezaubern (bewitch, captivate, charm, delight, delude, enchant, enthrall, to charm). (various references)

Greek		γοητεύω (bedevil, beguile, bewitch, charm, enchant, enrapture, enthral, hex, mesmerize, ravish, spell, witch). (various references)

Hebrew		לקסום (bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, charm, divine, enchant), לעורר סקר� ות, ל�"קסים (cast a spell on, charm, enchant, fetch, ravish, spellbind). (various references)

Hungarian		megigéz (hypnotize, to fascinate, to hex, to hypnotise, to hypnotize, to mesmerize), elbûvöl (bewitch, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance). (various references)

Indonesian		mengasyikkan (absorbing, engross, preoccupy). (various references)

Italian		trascinare (actuate, carry back, drag, drag on, draw, draw oneself along, grind, haul, haul off, haulage, lead away, lug, pull, pull along, schlep, sharpen, shuffle, sweep, take in tow, tote, tow, tow off, trail, tug), avvincere (attract, charm, entwist, grip), affascinare (allure, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, intrigue, lead away, spellbind, take). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		悩殺 (bewitch, enchant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まよわす (bewilder, delude, mislead, perplex, to puzzle), のうさつ (bewitch, enchant, votive card or tablet). (various references)

Korean		황홀케 하십시�". (various references)

Manx		cur fo drualtys (enthral, entrance), cur drualtys er (enchant, enrapture, entrance). (various references)

Norwegian		fortrylle (enchant). (various references)

Papiamen		fasiná. (various references)

Pig Latin		ascinatefay

Portuguese		fascinar (alluring, becharm, bewitch, captivate, charm, entrance examination, fascinating, glamor, glamour, lure, magnetize). (various references)

Romanian		fermeca (allure, bedevil, bewitch, captivate, carry, cast a spell upon, charm, conjure, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fetch, lure, smite, spell, spellbind, take), fereca (arrest, chain, hoop, rivet, shoe), fascina (bewitch, charm, glamor, glamour, magnetize, mesmerize), vrãji (allure, bedevil, bewitch, cast a glamour over, cast a spell upon, charm, enchant, enrapture, entrance, glamor, glamour, lure, spell, spellbind), seduce (allure, entice, lead away, seduce, tempt), robi (enslave, enthrall, exploit, hack, slave), pasiona, hipnotiza (entrance, hypnotize, magnetize, mesmerize), deochea, captiva (captivate, charm, engage, engross, ensnare, subjugate, win), ademeni (allure, bait, corrupt, dangle, decoy, delude, ensnare, entice, inveigle, lead up the garden, lure, seduce, tempt), absorbi (absorb, aspirate, captivate, engage, engross, imbibe, inhale, soak, sponge, suck), înlãnţui (catenate, concatenate, enfetter, enlink, gyve, interlink, link), ţintui (arrest, charm, clench, clinch, fasten, fasten on, fasten upon, fix, nail, nail down, peg at, pin, rivet, stud, tack). (various references)

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

Serbo-Croatian		fascinirati, opčiniti (enchant, mesmerize, spellbind), očarati (captivate, enthral, enthrall, hypnotize, mesmerize, take). (various references)

Spanish		fascinar (allure, bewitch, enchant, enthral, enthrall, intrigue). (various references)

Swedish		fascinera. (various references)

Thai		้ลุ่มหลง, ทำให้ลุ่มหลง. (various references)

Turkish		hipnotize etmek (put into a trance), hayran bırakmak (amaze, charm, ecstasize, enthuse, entrance), cezbetmek (attract, bait, beguile, captivate, catch, charm, draw on, engross, fetch, hypnotize, lure, magnetize, prepossess, wile), büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch). (various references)

Ukranian		зачаровувати (allure, beguile, bewitch, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, glamor, glamour, philter, philtre, spell). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	baskanos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fascinate": fascinated, fascinates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fascinate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facinate, farcinate, fasciata, fascinare, fascinet, fascvinate, fasinate, ffascinate, Frascina. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fascinate" (pronounced fa"sunā't)
6	-a" s u n ā' t	assassinate.
5	-s u n ā' t	impersonate.
4	-u n ā' t	agglutinate, alienate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, contaminate, culminate, decaffeinate, decontaminate, denominate, determinate, detonate, discriminate, disseminate, dominate, eliminate, emanate, exterminate, fulminate, germinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, illuminate, incriminate, indoctrinate, inseminate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, nominate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, predominate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, renominate, resonate, ruminate, subordinate, terminate, titanate, urinate.
3	-n ā' t	designate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-n-s-t"
	-1 letter: estancia, fanatics, fanciest, fantasie, fasciate.
	-2 letters: acetins, caftans, catenas, cineast, entasia, fainest, fanatic, fancies, fasciae, fascine, fiances, infects, satanic, taenias.
	-3 letters: acetin, actins, ansate, antics, ascent, caftan, casein, casita, catena, centai, centas, enacts, enatic, facets, facias, facies, faenas, faints, fascia, fasten, feints, fiance, fiesta, finest, incase, incest, infect, infest, insect, nastic, nicest, sancta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-n-s-t"
	+1 letter: fascinated, fascinates.
	+2 letters: fanaticizes.
	+3 letters: affectations, defalcations, fantasticate, fantasticoes, fractionates, malefactions, rarefactions.
	+4 letters: confiscatable, craftsmanlike, decaffeinates, fanaticalness, fantasticated, fantasticates, handicrafters, manufactories.
	+5 letters: abortifacients, acetifications, artificialness, beatifications, fractionalizes, handicraftsmen.
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