Zapruder
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Abraham Zapruder, who shot the footage of the 1963 assassination of the President of the United States John F. Kennedy known as the Zapruder film.
Inflected forms:
form: Zapruders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Zaprudering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Zaprudered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Zaprudered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mesmerize; to fascinate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Zaprudered into surreal dimensions of purest speculation, ghost-narratives have emerged and taken on shadowy but determined lives of their own, but Cayce is familiar with them all, and steers clear.
"[…] In a sense, we've all been 'Zaprudered,'" he said. "The film was so graphic, disturbing, mesmerizing, that it became more of our perspective on the assassination than even the perspective of the assassin, which should never have happened."
He mulls whether to try changing history — removing that ugly watershed moment from American history, de-Zaprudering us all in the process — or to stand back. It’s rich stuff, psychologically.
Lifes explanation fit so neatly with the account that Connally broadcast nationwide from his Dallas hospital bed that even the FBI was promptly "Zaprudered'"—so mesmerized by the footage that it lost perspective. […]
No one realized that the commission, despite its crucial revision of the FBI's analysis, had also been Zaprudered. […]
The final twist to this saga is that once Zapruder's film is put in its proper context—he recorded an assassination that had started, not one in full—the footage provides some of the most powerful evidence against being Zaprudered. The film is mesmerizing and may deceive, but ultimately it does not lie.
gloss: To study (a piece of footage) closely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ah, well; at least 'shippers can stop Zaprudering old episodes to figure out whether Logan and Veronica have done it.
Perhaps they had a fleet of bilingual fact-checkers on the case, carefully Zaprudering the Chávez video to determine what exactly was said.
Why, Zapruder the heck out of the invite of course. Zaprudering, as the SciFicast explains, "is a neologism derived from the Zapruder film, the amateur 8mm film that is the only known visual record of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It's used here to indicate painstaking analysis of the trailer." Zaprudering refers to a detailed extraction of evidence from a limited set of image data.
It’s hard to tell in the original, so we’ve Zaprudered it for you to make it easier to tell where the punches occurred:
But why are photos of a 12-year-old girl being Zaprudered in this manner to begin with?
Instead, replay turns sports fans into sports rulebook lawyers, Zaprudering clips frame-by-frame to determine if something took 2.4 or 2.5 seconds, and getting indignant that the clock operator didn’t immediately notice and react to Cousins tipping the ball, even though the announcers and most fans didn’t notice until watching a replay.
And yet, despite multiple camera angles and a dedicated person in the booth Zaprudering every single frame, this still happened.
Though the question of exactly how Arya flew in there at the end — as opposed to pulling off a Faceless Man disguise at the last possible second — is one that will be Zaprudered and debated for a long time.
Related words: Zapruderian
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