Simple past tense and past participle of rivet.(verb)
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Use "riveted" in a sentence
"The word riveted the group and all eyes fell to the ground."
"The trailer had me riveted from the opening, the way in which it just threw away any pretense to add in dialogue or exposition or, for that matter, an explanation of the movie as it just sticks to the fun parts of a Fugitive meets Rambo kind of movie."
"He created a world that you can smell and taste, that you enter in riveted fascination."