mesmerize
verb (used with object)
had mesmerized
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past perfectof mesmerize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Sunday’s vote capped a week-long constitutional crisis that had mesmerized the nation.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
I offered my reading of “Big Wheel,” which had mesmerized me — raising themes, I thought, of labor, manufacturing decline, and the slippage between seductive and toxic masculinity.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2021
Sitting there, I realized that the experience had mesmerized me.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2016
She also had mesmerized set and costume designer Ali Hubert.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Perhaps Betty had mesmerized us into the hypnotic state and rendered us invisible to mortal eyes such as yours!"
From The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil
