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Mesmerize   /mˈɛzmərˌaɪz/   Listen
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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"Mesmerize" Quotes from Famous Books



... returned uneasily: "There may be such a place in Sheridan, but I have never found it. Old Mother Shattuck keeps roomers, but she won't have a woman in the house. I reckon you 'll have to try it at the hotel—I'll get you in there if I have to mesmerize the clerk—you'll find it a bit ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish

... impossible. So we spent it thus—A.M. Full Cathedral Service with the Holy Communion, which was very nice, though, as it was a Feast Day, the service was later than usual, so it took all our morning. Rex played the organ. We spent most of the afternoon in tuning the organ, and then R. went off to mesmerize a man for neuralgia, and I went up town to try and get something ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden



Words linked to "Mesmerize" :   entrance, tempt, tranquillize, charm, tranquilize, influence, calm, sedate, Mesmer, tranquillise



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