Meanings
present singular third person enraptures · participle present enrapturing · participle past enraptured · past enraptured
- transitiveTo fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate or captivate.
Her song enraptured the audience with vivid images of the Scandinavian landscapes.
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The pace came off the match as the first half continued, with the occasional frenetic moment down the flanks enlivening what otherwise became a chess-like tactical battle. But as is the magic of football, this beautiful game that enraptures so many of us, that it only took one of those split-second moments to change everything.
2023 August 7, Kieran Pender, “Caitlin Foord and Hayley Raso fire Australia into quarter-finals with win over Denmark”, in The GuardianSynonyms: transport
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate or captivate.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Proto-Italic*en-
- Latinin-
- Old Frenchen-
- Middle Englishen-
- Englishen-
- Englishrapture
- Englishenrapture
Translations
Bulgarian очаровам, възхищавам
- очаровам (očarovam)to fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- възхищавам (văzhištavam)to fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Dutch in vervoering brengen
- in vervoering brengento fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Esperanto ravi
- ravito fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
German hinreißen, entzücken
- hinreißento fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- entzückento fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- verzückento fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- begeisternto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Hebrew סָחַף
- סָחַף (saḥáf)to fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Hungarian elragadtat, lenyűgöz
- elragadtatto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- lenyűgözto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- magával ragadto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- elbűvölto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- megigézto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Italian rapire, incantare
- rapireto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- incantareto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- affascinareto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Māori manawarū
- manawarūto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Polish zachwycić, oczarować
- zachwycićto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- oczarowaćto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Russian очаровывать, вызывать симпатию
- очаровывать (očarovyvatʹ)to fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- вызывать симпатию (vyzyvatʹ simpatiju)to fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Spanish arrobar, embelesar
- arrobarto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- embelesarto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- cautivarto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- embrujarto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- transportarto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- extasiarto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- enajenarto fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Swedish hänföra, hänrycka
- hänförato fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
- hänryckato fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with enrapture
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enrapture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enrapture
“enrapture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enrapture. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enrapture,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enrapture.
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