noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
morbid fascination/curiosity
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a morbid fascination with instruments of torture
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
horrified
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The Doctor watched all this in horrified fascination .
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Nails watched it with horrified fascination , and saw it start to slide towards him.
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In this, again, they resemble Swift, though they rarely share his horrified fascination .
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He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip.
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She wondered in horrified fascination what they were going to do to her.
morbid
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Is it morbid fascination that holds your attention?
■ VERB
hold
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Kennedy has long held a fascination for Jimi Hendrix, who died from a drugs overdose in 1970.
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Miss Dowd had been murdered in her cage by a demented mooch and her picture held a dreadful fascination for Rowena.
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For Elizabeth Gould, however, this ornithological cornucopia right on the doorstep did not hold the same all-encompassing fascination .
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There was too much of the outlaw about him that held its own fascination .
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Carnivorous plants apparently hold a macabre fascination for gardeners and they're becoming increasingly popular.
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It appeared to hold a mesmeric fascination for him as his dark, red-veined eyes watched the rising curlicue of steam.
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The refrigerator, squat and gleaming like a surgical sarcophagus, had held a sinister fascination for her ever since.
watch
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At first, Lucien had watched them in awed fascination , hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule.
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Most of the kids were a little older than Janir, and he watched them with a fascination that bordered on hunger.
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Riven watched in fascination , for he had never seen the Myrcans more animated.
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Lorraine watches in appalled fascination as this wobbling tub of seventy-year-old lard plunges into the sea.
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Converse watched him spit with fascination .
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They stood watching dumbly in horrible fascination after it shattered.
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Gaal had never before seen so great a Lord and he watched him with fascination .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mark has a fascination for all things electrical.
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What's your sudden fascination with my boyfriend?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her distaste has since evolved into ambivalent fascination .
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No one admitted his emotions, neither the irritation nor the fascination .
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The roots of this new fascination can be traced back to the heart of minimalism.
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There is a certain peculiar fascination in the stories.
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There was too much of the outlaw about him that held its own fascination .