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mesmerize
[mez-muh-rahyz, mes-]
verb (used with object)
to completely capture the attention of; spellbind; fascinate.
This young pianist has mesmerized audiences with her incredible technique and range of musical expression.
to hypnotize or put into a trancelike state; cause (someone) to be open to the power of suggestion or unable to act on their own.
According to ancient myth, the song of the sea nymphs mesmerized sailors, drawing them into disastrous waters.
to cause or compel through fascination or by hypnotizing.
Advertising can easily mesmerize us into thinking that wealth is the same as money and possessions.
In this game scene, the warriors do not know they’ve been mesmerized into the service of the enemy.
mesmerize
/ ˈɛəˌɪ /
verb
a former word for hypnotize
to hold (someone) as if spellbound
Other Word Forms
- mesmerization noun
- mesmerizer noun
- ˈˌ noun
- ˌˈپDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of mesmerize1
Example Sentences
Hernandez herself is just as coy, slipping in enough truth to snare the viewer and keep them mesmerized against a chilly, bare synth score.
The exhibition’s strongest individual objects are three mesmerizing “infinity portals,” two on the wall and one on the floor.
As warm spring weather and effusions of greenery spread across our disordered continent, Americans are understandably mesmerized by the widening chaos, unresolved conflict and bottomless corruption of Donald Trump’s second presidency.
“I think he has a unique, magnetic, mesmerizing presence that I felt like I would like to build a movie around,” Anderson says, answering questions via voice notes sent over email.
The interruptions from Byron’s poem brought chills in Fonda’s mesmerizing reading, as the text follows the breakdown of humanity in the aftermath of environmental catastrophe.
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