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Verb: spellbind (spellbound)  'spel`bInd
  1. To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
    "The snake charmer spellbinds the cobra"
    - fascinate, transfix, grip
     
  2. Attract strongly, as if with a magnet
    - magnetize, mesmerize, mesmerise [Brit], magnetise [Brit], bewitch
     
  3. Put into a trance
    - entrance

Derived forms: spellbinding, spellbinds, spellbound

See also: spellbinder

Type of: charm, hypnotise [Brit], hypnotize, influence, interest, mesmerise [Brit], mesmerize, tempt