Definition of "fascinate"
verb
third-person singular simple present fascinates, present participle fascinating, simple past and past participle fascinated
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
Quotations
Leo, too, was strangely touched. Hitherto he had been fascinated against his better judgment, something as a bird is fascinated by a snake, but now I think that all this passed away, and he realised that he really loved this strange and glorious creature, as, alas! I loved her also.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887