MEANING
1. To captivate someone’s attention strongly.
2. To subject someone to the historical practice called mesmerism.
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Words that belong together
- mesmerize an audience
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The dancer mesmerized the audience.
The slow spiral mesmerized him.
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Word forms
- Base
- mesmerize
- Past tense
- mesmerized
- Past participle
- mesmerized
- Present participle
- mesmerizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- mesmerize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are mesmerizing
- Present perfect
- have/has mesmerized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been mesmerizing
- Past
- mesmerized
- Past continuous
- was/were mesmerizing
- Past perfect
- had mesmerized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been mesmerizing
- Future
- will mesmerize
- Future continuous
- will be mesmerizing
- Future perfect
- will have mesmerized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been mesmerizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: mesmerize; mesmerizes; mesmerized; mesmerized; mesmerizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: mesmerizes.
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