Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: mesmerise)
WordNet
adj. having your attention fixated as though by a spell [syn: fascinated, hypnotized, hypnotised, mesmerized, spellbound, transfixed]
Wikipedia
Mesmerised is an Australian television series involving hypnotist Peter Powers traveling around Australia with actors and volunteers willing to be hypnotised by Powers and made to perform amusing and often embarrassing acts. The series was produced for the Seven Network by Endemol Australia.
The series premiered in Australia on 15 October 2015 on the Seven Network. Despite 6 episodes being produced, the program was pulled from the broadcast schedule after low ratings for its debut episode.
Usage examples of "mesmerised".
I hate being mesmerised, and the doctor has forbidden me to touch sugar.
Not just her business, but her home as well if the flames should spread, and potentially her life, and yet still she stood there, completely unable to move, mesmerised by the lethal tongue of red and yellow fire, ignoring the heat that scorched her skin, and the ominous crackling sound of dry roof-timbers being eaten away by the furious flames, unable to do anything but stand there and watch her whole world being destroyed.
Lumbering through the commuters streaming towards the platforms or standing in mesmerised groups staring at the departure indicators, he went past the bookstall and some girls selling nuts and then he was below the clock.
Nicholas found himself almost mesmerised by the box now containing his father, and felt both guilt and sadness.