enrapt

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She listens, enrapt, as if a world she has never known is opening up to her for the first time.

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  1. adjective Filled with delight; enraptured.

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  • They cranked President-elect Obama's speech for the enrapt audience, and I was caught weeping in front of my Salesforce colleagues. —  Social Media Firehose
  • Armed with buckets of popcorn and a passion for celluloid, I've sat enrapt through hours and hours of great cinema. —  247Gay.com
  • Frost's breadth of emotional force came through in Richardson's powerful reading of it, in unexpected ways that had us all enrapt and reconsidering every stanza from beginning to end. —  RutlandHerald.com
  • With Alki students watching, enrapt, from the floor - sometimes singing and clapping, too - the singers filled the cafeteria with joyful tunes, and then a surprise in the middle of —  West Seattle Blog...
  • The traffic and the Price Chopper had no effect on my imagination as I wandered from name to name and date to date, enrapt in the palpable history. —  blogTO
 

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/ɛnˈræpt/
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