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mesmerised::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
Examples of mesmerised
mesmerised
I sit mesmerised as she stretches, yawns and regards us with bored indifference.
From the couriermail.com.au
For 15 years Labour has been dominated and mesmerised by the Blair-Brown duopoly.
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Except the audience, who were too busy being mesmerised by Ms Valance's cleavage.
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Courtney is mesmerised by these ordinary houses with their neatly kept gardens.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Great Barrier Reef has mesmerised world travellers for more than 50 years.
From the telegraph.co.uk
So has evil Dr Mabuse mesmerised us to idolise bad boys and vicious gangsters?
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He is ill at ease at the crease like a stunned rabbit mesmerised in the headlights.
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But I'm not dizzy, just mesmerised by the ever changing landscape before me.
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They are won over by his conviction and clarity, and soon become mesmerised.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Magnetize: attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks"
- Hypnotize: induce hypnosis in
- Mezmerize is the fourth studio album by American rock band System of a Down. It is the first half of the Mezmerize/Hypnotize double album. It was released on May 17, 2005, six months before Hypnotize.
- "Mesmerize" is the second single by Ja Rule from his album The Last Temptation. The song was produced by Irv Gotti and features R&B artist Ashanti. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it Ashanti's and Ja Rule's fourth top ten hit as a duet.
- Mesmerize is an Interactive art game developed by SCE London Studio in association with Playlogic Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 platform, which utilizes the PlayStation Eye camera peripheral. It was released on PlayStation Store in December 20, 2007.
- Animal magnetism, also known as mesmerism, was the name given by the German doctor Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer in the 18th century to what he believed to be an invisible natural force exerted by animals. He believed that the force could have physical effects, including healing. He tried persistently but without success to achieve scientific recognition of his theories.
- To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall
- (mesmerization) hypnotism
- The first term for hypnotize, after Franz Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician who in the late eighteenth century treated and cured hysterical or conversion disorders with what he considered the animal magnetism emanating from his body and permeating the universe.
