magnetize
Americanverb (used with object)
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magnetizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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magnetized,
past participle, past
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magnetizing
present participle
verb
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to make (a substance or object) magnetic
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to attract strongly
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an obsolete word for mesmerize
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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magnetizationnoun
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magnetizernoun
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remagnetizeverb (used with object)
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magnetizableadjective
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nonmagnetizedadjective
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unmagnetizedadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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magnetizesimple
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magnetizessimple
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have magnetizedperfect
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has magnetizedperfect
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am magnetizingprogressive
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are magnetizingprogressive
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is magnetizingprogressive
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have been magnetizingperfect progressive
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has been magnetizingperfect progressive
Past
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magnetizedsimple
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had magnetizedperfect
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was magnetizingprogressive
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were magnetizingprogressive
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had been magnetizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of magnetize
Example Sentences
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“I learned to temper my thoughts, embrace gratefulness, give myself grace, pour into myself to be available for others and magnetize the positive into manifested results,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
"We apply an oscillating field to reset the magnetization, then apply a strong magnetic field to the cilia which allows us to magnetize the microparticles in a new direction."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
In a ferromagnet such as iron, all the atoms act like little magnets and they all point in the same direction to magnetize the entire material.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 30, 2020
Registering the artifice in Hopper’s limpid art may free us to see a link between hotel rooms and painting itself: Both magnetize desire and a longing to escape.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
“If I rub the needle with the lodestone, I’ll magnetize it. Basically I’ll turn it into a compass needle. If we can get it to float on the water without breaking the surface tension...”
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
"First, we irradiate the alloy with a strong laser pulse, which magnetizes the material," explains Theo Pflug.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023
It smells hellish too, like rotting meat on a sweltering day, which magnetizes tons of insects that scatter its spores.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023
The southernmost state and yet not quite identified with the deep south, a meeting point for Latino influence and a rangy variant of Americana, it’s a strange place that magnetizes strange people.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2019
He magnetizes attention, sometimes at the expense of Ben Dickey, who plays Foley as a sly, slow-moving bear of a man with a knack for fingerpicking and self-sabotage.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2018
Ama creates another Adinkra symbol that magnetizes Lala back to the ship.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
This structure shows that magnetized plasma is being dragged through the cluster, leaving behind a diffuse trail that has persisted for millions of years.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
They brought flair, grit, and feet that seemed magnetized to the ball as they starred for clubs such as Ajax and Barcelona, AC Milan and Juventus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
This validation that A.I. gives its user—or rather itself—is another reason students are so magnetized to these programs.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
But José Arcadio Buendía at that time did not believe in the honesty of gypsies, so he traded his mule and a pair of goats for the two magnetized ingots.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Friends and family said she was well-liked and had a magnetizing personality.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
“Grief is a magnetizing force from which the book cannot escape.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022
But I made the mistake that she did, which I forgot about the magnetizing.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2022
John wasn’t much at coming up with new melodies, but the words were magnetizing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
The discovery was a method of magnetizing plastic.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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