MEANING
1. To fill someone with absorbed fascination or a trance-like attention.
2. An opening or route by which one enters a place.
3. The action of coming into a place or appearing before others.
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Words that belong together
- entrance an audience
On the page
The singer entranced the room.
The moving pattern entranced her.
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Word forms
- Base
- entrance
- Past tense
- entranced
- Past participle
- entranced
- Present participle
- entrancing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- entrance
- Present continuous
- am/is/are entrancing
- Present perfect
- have/has entranced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been entrancing
- Past
- entranced
- Past continuous
- was/were entrancing
- Past perfect
- had entranced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been entrancing
- Future
- will entrance
- Future continuous
- will be entrancing
- Future perfect
- will have entranced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been entrancing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: entrance; entrances; entranced; entranced; entrancing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: entrances.
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