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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transport \Trans*port"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Transported}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transporting}.] [F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See {Port} bearing, demeanor.]
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. --Hakluyt.
2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. --Milton.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. --South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transported \Trans*port"ed\, adjective Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- {Trans*port"ed*ly}, adverb -- {Trans*port"ed*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "transported": abandoned, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, amok, bellowing, bemused, berserk, bursting with happiness, carried away, castle-building, daydreaming, daydreamy, delirious, demoniac, distracted, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elate, elated, elsewhere, enchanted, engrossed, enraptured, enravished, entranced, exalted, exultant, faraway, feral, ferocious, fierce, flushed, frantic, freaked out, frenzied, fulminating, furious, haggard, half-awake, high, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, imparadised, in a reverie, in a transport, in ecstasies, in heaven, in hysterics, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, in the clouds, intoxicated, jubilant, lost, lost in thought, mad, madding, maniac, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, on cloud nine, orgasmic, orgiastic, overjoyed, overjoyful, pensive, pipe-dreaming, possessed, preoccupied, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, rapt, raptured, rapturous, raving, ravished, rhapsodic, roaring, running mad, sent, somewhere else, stargazing, storming, taken up, unconscious, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, woolgathering, wrapped in thought
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