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Mesmerized   /mˈɛzmərˌaɪzd/   Listen
Mesmerized

adjective
1.
Having your attention fixated as though by a spell.  Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed.


Mesmerize

verb
(past & past part. mesmerized; pres. part. mesmerizing)  (Also spelled mesmerise)
1.
Attract strongly, as if with a magnet.  Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, spellbind.
2.
Induce hypnosis in.  Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerise.





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"Mesmerized" Quotes from Famous Books



... away, they thought; but Teeny-bits squirmed around and tore his sweater half off and finally got almost loose, when back came two of these Chinamen and were tying him up again when they saw this mark on his back and they began to act as if they'd been mesmerized or something. They jabbered away and pointed at the thing, and while they were going through these tantrums Teeny-bits just walked out of the place ...
— The Mark of the Knife • Clayton H. Ernst


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