enrapture

English

Etymology

en- +‎ rapture

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɹæpt͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ɛnˈɹæpt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æptʃə(ɹ)

Verb

enrapture (third-person singular simple present enraptures, present participle enrapturing, simple past and past participle enraptured)

1. (transitive) To fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate or captivate.

   Her song enraptured the audience with vivid images of the Scandinavian landscapes.

   • 2023 August 7, Kieran Pender, “Caitlin Foord and Hayley Raso fire Australia into quarter-finals with win over Denmark”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• rapture

Translations

to fill with great delight or joy; to fascinate

• Bulgarian: очаровам (bg) (očarovam)
• Dutch: in vervoering brengen
• German: hinreißen (de), entzücken (de), verzücken (de), begeistern (de)
• Hebrew: (metaphoric) סָחַף (he) m (saḥáf)
• Hungarian: elragadtat (hu), lenyűgöz (hu), magával ragad, elbűvöl (hu), megigéz (hu)
• Ido: ravisar (io)
• Italian: rapire (it), incantare (it), affascinare (it)
• Kazakh: таңғалту (tañğaltu)
• Maori: manawarū
• Polish: zachwycić (pl), oczarować (pl)
• Russian: очаровывать (ru) (očarovyvatʹ), вызывать симпатию (vyzyvatʹ simpatiju)
• Spanish: arrobar (es), embelesar (es), cautivar (es), embrujar (es), transportar (es), extasiar (es)
• Swedish: hänföra (sv), hänrycka