Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - spellbinding

A spellbinding image or sound is one that is so fascinating that you can think about nothing else. Gray describes in dramatic and spellbinding detail the lives of these five ladies. = gripping ADJ: usu ADJ n SPELLBOUND If you are spellbound by something or someone, you are so fascinated that you cannot think about anything else. His audience had listened like children, spellbound by his words... ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ by n