ENRAPTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enrapture mean? 

• ENRAPTURE (verb)
  The verb ENRAPTURE has 1 sense:

1. hold spellbound

  Familiarity information: ENRAPTURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENRAPTURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enrapture    ... he / she / it enraptures   
Past simple: enraptured   
Past participle: enraptured   
-ing form: enrapturing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hold spellbound

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

delight; enchant; enrapture; enthral; enthrall; ravish; transport

Hypernyms (to "enrapture" is one way to...):

delight; please (give pleasure to or be pleasing to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will enrapture her
The performance is likely to enrapture Sue

 Context examples 

My father was enraptured on finding me freed from the vexations of a criminal charge, that I was again allowed to breathe the fresh atmosphere and permitted to return to my native country.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In short, my aunt, seeing how enraptured I was with the premises, took them for a month, with leave to remain for twelve months when that time was out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the other side the famous French captain leaned back in his chair, a litter of nut-shells upon his lap, his huge head half buried in a cushion, while his eyes wandered with an amused gleam from his dame to the staring, enraptured Englishmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The old man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So we parted; I riding all the way to London with the farewell touch of Dora's hand still light on mine, recalling every incident and word ten thousand times; lying down in my own bed at last, as enraptured a young noodle as ever was carried out of his five wits by love.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)