English

Alternative forms

• mesmerise (UK)

Verb

mesmerize ‎(third-person singular simple present mesmerizes, present participle mesmerizing, simple past and past participle mesmerized)

1. To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

   She mesmerized the audience with her tricks‎

Synonyms

• (exercise mesmerism on): spellbind, hypnotize, enthrall

Translations

See also

• hypnotize

External links

• mesmerize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• mesmerize in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Portuguese

Verb

mesmerize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of mesmerizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of mesmerizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of mesmerizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of mesmerizar