rapt
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From Latin raptor (“robber”), from Latin rapere (“seize”)
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rapt (comparative more rapt, superlative most rapt)
- Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
- The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.
- (New Zealand, Australian) Happy or elated.
- He was rapt with his exam results.
- lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
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- See also Wikisaurus:rapt
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Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed
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rapt m. (plural rapts)
