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transfixer

transfixer noun: something that transfixes.

Noun

transfixer (plural transfixers)

  1. Something that transfixes.
    • When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement. To be stuck by that label, it seemed to me, would mean having to live my life as a case history in a...1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9

Forms of transfixer

pluraltransfixers

Origin of transfixer

From transfix + -er.

Questions about transfixer

What does transfixer mean?
Transfixer means something that transfixes.
What part of speech is transfixer?
Transfixer is a noun.
What is the plural of transfixer?
The plural of transfixer is transfixers.

Words near transfixer in the dictionary

  1. transfix
  2. transfixable
  3. transfixation
  4. transfixations
  5. transfixed
  6. transfixer
  7. transfixers
  8. transfixes
  9. transfixeth
  10. transfixing
  11. transfixingly

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