magnetize

American  

[mag-ni-tahyz] / ˈmæg nɪˌtaɪz /

especially British, magnetise

verb (used with object)

magnetized, magnetizing

1. to make a magnet of or impart the properties of a magnet to.

2. to exert an attracting or compelling influence upon.

   The evangelist's oratory magnetized his listeners.

3. Archaic. to mesmerize.

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magnetize British  

/ ˈmæɡnɪˌtaɪz /

verb

1. to make (a substance or object) magnetic

2. to attract strongly

3. an obsolete word for mesmerize

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magnetize Scientific  

/ măg′nĭ-tīz′ /

1. To cause an object to become temporarily or permanently magnetic. For example, an unmagnetized object made of ferromagnetic material consists of molecules that are magnetic but randomly aligned, producing no net magnetic field; exposure to a magnetic field causes the molecules to align themselves with the field, producing their own net field, so that the object as a whole becomes magnetized.

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Other Word Forms

• magnetizable adjective
• magnetization noun
• magnetizer noun
• nonmagnetized adjective
• remagnetize verb (used with object)
• unmagnetized adjective

Etymology

Origin of magnetize

First recorded in 1775–85; magnet + -ize

Example Sentences

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

The trances were described rather opaquely as “put her asleep,” “magnetized,” or “put in the clairvoyant state.”

From Literature

"Electrons are the lightest players in the plasma, but when they become magnetized, they dictate the rules. That simple change can completely alter how nanomaterials form."

From Science Daily

Such an eruption would release a cloud of dense, magnetized plasma, temporarily altering the space around the FRB source as it passed through the line of sight.

From Science Daily

When the north and south poles of an iron atom line up, the atom becomes ferromagnetic and strongly magnetized.

From Science Daily