transfix

To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.

Noun

A discontinuous affix, typical of Afro-Asiatic languages, which occurs at more than one position in a word, i.e. a combination of prefixes, infixes and/or suffixes.
- The Arabic word مكتوب (maktūb, “written”) is built from the root [script needed] (k–t–b, “writing”) and the transfix [script needed] (ma––ū–, “passive participle”).

From trans- + -fix.

To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
- He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous...
- But we may as well accept her story as true, for it is likely she would have been transfixed by the narcissism of the weight lifters. - 1973, Norman Mailer, Marilyn: A Biography, page 45:
To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
- The spear transfixed my arm that was uplifted In swift expostulation, and the blood Gushed round its point: I smiled, […] - 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The...
- There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he bathed, and down this on occasion would come a shoal of fish. Then the natives would assemble with spears, and with much shouting would transfix the great...
To fix or impale.

From Middle French transfixer, from Old French transfixer, from Latin transfigō (“to pierce through”), from trans- (“through”) + figō (“to pierce”).