to transport
37
7.5
- verb
- /ˈtrænspɔrt/
- Archaic
:
extasiar
- Through these pictorial experiences, students are transported mentally to the remotest corners of the globe.
- transported to another world
- transported back
- transported listeners
You're just like, instantly transported into like fun land.
- You're just like, instantly transported into like fun land.
- And to me, it transports me back to that time.
- And as soon as I smell that, I'm transported back in time to, to a good place.
- I think great sex is losing yourself in the moment and being transported to a different place.
- The story will transport you, the reader, to someplace completely different.
- And when I asked him that, all of a sudden I was transported right back to my stepfather's room.
- So, everyone, I want you to remember, transport yourselves back to your work Christmas party last year.
- Desire transports us to a space of imagined future being or having.
- And I also love being transported in the world.
- And I like that it I'm transported.
Examples
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I love how fragrance will literally transport you back to a specific moment in your life.
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While playing a computer game, Patrick is transported to a parallel world.
Academic text (1994) -
Oh no, it transported me back to the past.
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Walking into the Old City is always like being transported back in time.
Fiction book (1998) -
For a brief moment, he had a feeling of being transported into a strange land of peace.
Fiction book (1991) -
The story will transport you, the reader, to someplace completely different.
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The minute I set foot on foreign soil, I am transported.
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As this joy descends on Julien, he is elevated toward the heavens and transported to another world.
Academic text (2003) -
I felt much as I do when I’m flying upward toward the sun, transported somehow to a... simple, safe, beautiful place where everything is... comprehensible.
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Hearing that familiar song can transport you to a time when you felt truly happy.
Synonyms
668
3.4
Make someone feel strong emotions
88
3.5
To move people or things away, sometimes because of strong feeling
79
2.1
To please someone very much
20
6.8
To hold someone's full attention by being very interesting
17
4.8
To make someone feel very pleased and amazed as if by magic
6
7.8
To make someone feel very happy and amazed
6
8.7
To fill someone with great joy and amazement
4
4.4
To take a person to another place or to move someone's feelings suddenly
Hold someone's attention completely and make them feel very interested
Compounds
39
1.4
Services like buses or trains that anyone can use in a city, usually for a small fee
- Specialized
A document that makes one company responsible for goods moved by two or more kinds of transport
- Specialized
To move a substance across a cell membrane from low to high concentration using energy
- Specialized
Movement of substances like oxygen across a cell membrane without using the cell's energy
- Archaic
Part inside a tape player that moves the tape so sound is played or recorded
How Joyful
- Literature
6
7.8
- Archaic
37
7.5
201
2.1
79
2.1
1
3.5
216
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Transport as a verb meaning to fill someone with strong feeling comes from trans- and portare, 'across' and 'to carry', so to transport someone with beauty or music is to 'carry' their mind away into another, joyful state.