Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - mesmerize
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(mesmerizes, mesmerizing, mesmerized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'mesmerise' If you are mesmerized by something, you are so interested in it or so attracted to it that you cannot think about anything else. He was absolutely mesmerised by Pavarotti on television... There was something about Pearl that mesmerised her. VERB: be V-ed, V n • mesmerized I sat mesmerized long after the fairground closed. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • mesmerizing She has a mesmerising smile. ADJ: ADJ n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1829 1. to subject to mesmerism; also hypnotize 2. spellbind • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (also -ise) 1 Psychol. hypnotize; exercise mesmerism on. 2 fascinate, spellbind. Derivatives mesmerization n. mesmerizer n. mesmerizingly adv. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1829 from mesmerism, borrowed 1802 from Fr. mesmйrisme, named for Franz Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian physician who developed a theory of animal magnetism and a mysterious body fluid which allows one person to hypnotize another. Sense of "enthrall" is early 20c. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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