MEANING
To absorb someone in intense delight or fascination.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- enrapture an audience
- enraptured by music
On the page
The performance enraptured the restless audience.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- enrapture
- Past tense
- enraptured
- Past participle
- enraptured
- Present participle
- enrapturing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- enrapture
- Present continuous
- am/is/are enrapturing
- Present perfect
- have/has enraptured
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been enrapturing
- Past
- enraptured
- Past continuous
- was/were enrapturing
- Past perfect
- had enraptured
- Past perfect continuous
- had been enrapturing
- Future
- will enrapture
- Future continuous
- will be enrapturing
- Future perfect
- will have enraptured
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been enrapturing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: enrapture; enraptures; enraptured; enraptured; enrapturing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: enraptures.
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