"spellbound" meaning in English

See spellbound in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spellbound.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-spellbound.wav Forms: more spellbound [comparative], most spellbound [superlative]
Etymology: From spell + bound. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|spell|bound}} spell + bound Head templates: {{en-adj}} spellbound (comparative more spellbound, superlative most spellbound)
  1. Fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell. Related terms: spellbind Translations (fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell): омагьосан (omagjosan) (Bulgarian), запленен (zaplenen) (Bulgarian), embadalit (Catalan), okouzlený (Czech), očarovaný (Czech), uhranutý (Czech), fascinovaný (Czech), trøllabundin (Faroese), lumoutunut (Finnish), haltioitunut (Finnish), envoûté (French), fasciné (French), gebannt (German), bezaubert (German), affascinato (Italian), incantato (Italian), ammaliato (Italian), trasognato (Italian), trollbundet (Norwegian), oczarowany (Polish), zafascynowany (Polish), encantado (Portuguese), fascinado (Portuguese), очаро́ванный (očaróvannyj) (Russian), зачаро́ванный (začaróvannyj) (Russian), заворо́женный (zavoróžennyj) (Russian), opčinjenost (Serbo-Croatian), fasciniranost (Serbo-Croatian), pircantatu (Sicilian), embobado (Spanish), trollbunden (Swedish), nabighani (Tagalog), зачаро́ваний (začaróvanyj) (Ukrainian)
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        "Fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell."
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          "code": "bg",
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          "roman": "omagjosan",
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          "word": "омагьосан"
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          "roman": "zaplenen",
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          "word": "запленен"
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          "code": "ca",
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          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "embadalit"
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          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "okouzlený"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
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          "word": "očarovaný"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "uhranutý"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "fascinovaný"
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          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "trøllabundin"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "lumoutunut"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "haltioitunut"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "envoûté"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "fasciné"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "gebannt"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "bezaubert"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "affascinato"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "incantato"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "ammaliato"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "trasognato"
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          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "trollbundet"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "oczarowany"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "zafascynowany"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "encantado"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
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          "code": "ru",
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          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "очаро́ванный"
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          "word": "зачаро́ванный"
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          "word": "заворо́женный"
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          "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
          "word": "pircantatu"
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          "word": "embobado"
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          "lang": "Tagalog",
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          "word": "nabighani"
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      "word": "омагьосан"
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      "word": "запленен"
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      "word": "embadalit"
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      "word": "haltioitunut"
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      "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
      "word": "envoûté"
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      "word": "fasciné"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
      "word": "gebannt"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
      "word": "bezaubert"
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      "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
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      "lang": "Italian",
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      "word": "incantato"
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      "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
      "word": "ammaliato"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
      "word": "trasognato"
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      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
      "word": "trollbundet"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell",
      "word": "oczarowany"
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      "word": "encantado"
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      "word": "embobado"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.