Antonyms for enrapture
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : en-rap-cher |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈræp tʃər |
Definition of enrapture
Origin :- 1740, from en- (1) + rapture. Related: Enraptured.
- verb captivate
- He was surrounded by all that could enchant the eye and enrapture the imagination.
- Extract from : « Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. » by Pierce Egan
- There is little that does not enrapture them, if you tie them down to nothing, and let them try all.
- Extract from : « Rhoda Fleming, Complete » by George Meredith
- And yet, even in this state, they enrapture those who behold them.
- Extract from : « History Of Ancient Civilization » by Charles Seignobos
- Such pretty maneuvering of horse and foot took place below Holyrood Palace as quite to enrapture a terrier.
- Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
- The sight of a modern monument throws one into melancholy even while an ancient one has not ceased to enrapture.
- Extract from : « Rodin: The Man and his Art » by Judith Cladel
- Her face was lovely and animated enough to enrapture a Raffaelle, and her fortune ample enough to captivate a Rothschild.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 6, 1841, » by Various
- The very smallness of her stature, with its perfect symmetry, had also gone far to enrapture him.
- Extract from : « The Landleaguers » by Anthony Trollope
- At first the work did not enrapture me, for I could not see the use of spending so much time upon breathing.
- Extract from : « Great Singers on the Art of Singing » by James Francis Cooke
- “I will enrapture you with a thousand hexameters declaratory of my incommunicable affections,” shouted the prolific versifier.
- Extract from : « Lady Eureka, v. 2 (of 3) » by Robert Folkestone Williams
- Meantime, the girl was making a toilet of vast and artful simplicity wherewith to enrapture the eye of the beholder.
- Extract from : « The Clarion » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Synonyms for enrapture
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