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mesmerize
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mesmerize \Mes"mer*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mesmerized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mesmerizing .] [Also spelled mesmerise .] To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep; to hypnotize. To produce an intense fascination in; to spellbind.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Audiences will be mesmerized by the film's dazzling photography. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame, letting it mesmerize him into memory.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829, back-formation from mesmerism . Transferred sense of "enthrall" is first attested 1862. Related: Mesmerized ; mesmerizing .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mesmerize , mezmerize or mesmerise may refer to: The act of hypnosis , Franz Mesmer Mesmerize (song) , a 2003 single by rapper Ja Rule Mezmerize (album) , a 2005 album by System of a Down
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks" [syn: magnetize , mesmerise , magnetise , bewitch , spellbind ] induce hypnosis in [syn: hypnotize , hypnotise , mesmerise ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
Usage examples of mesmerize.
I was mesmerized by the sight, ensnared by a palpable vibration that seemed to emanate from the figure, by an alluring resonance that made me feel sick and dizzy and full of buzzing, incoherent thoughts.
She watched, mesmerized, as he ran his hands slowly, sensually, over her legs and pelvis, as if he were mapping her, memorizing every curve.
Today somehow he had mesmerized her with that shimmery eye and caused her to give away her secret.
And he had to admit that the man was mesmerizing, as supernally articulate as his reputation had suggested.
He was mesmerized by the chatter between aircraft as Backstop One and Two rendezvoused with Icewall.
Why should any man be so gifted not only with so much pleasurable history but also with a gift of gab that could mesmerize a quintet of bums around a fire under a bridge?
They were collectively mesmerized by her lovely presence, and not even the gunfighter thought to level a weapon at her.
His favored glamour is that of an intensely sexual Highland blacksmith with a powerful rippling body, golden skin, long black hair, and dark, mesmerizing eyes Highly intelligent, lethally seductive.
In its key section, Menzies accused the Liberals of having become so mesmerized by the cult of the gross national product that they thought all governments needed to do was maintain short-run economic stability.
The moths moved away from the building, slipping smoothly through the sky, their wings still stretched out, somehow flying while the wings presented an unmoving, mesmerizing vista.
Apparently pleased by his words, both girls trotted across the room in a bouncing, bobbing movement of four tantalizing tits that mesmerized him.
He only stared at the old man with mesmerized eyes, and Anderson paused.
She tried to think, but that whispering voice was starting to mesmerize her-the repetitive phraseology, the short chantlike bursts of speech.
You sprinkle mind-deadening drugs in their cornflakes, or do you mesmerize them with those phony yellow eyes?
The chanting was picked up by others, and soon most of the people were deeply involved in a mesmerizing sequence that consisted of repetitive phrases sung in a pulsating beat with little change in tone, alternating with arrhythmic drumming that had more tonal variation than the voices.