mesmerize
verb (used with object)
mesmerise
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a variation of
mesmerize.
Example Sentences
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Strange to sit there in the dark and watch her mesmerise her Arab audience - a flame-haired diva with Rahda's mouth, Rahda's eyes, while Rahda herself was sheltering from mortar fire in her Damascus basement.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2017
It’s at this point that you become aware that the unhurried movement of both players and ball has begun to mesmerise.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2016
You’re aiming to mesmerise, and for me that’s the quality that the best fiction has.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2015
Such "anti-camouflage" would draw more inspiration from the deep sea creatures who use their skin to attract, rather than avoid, attention - like cuttlefish that mesmerise their pray with rippling stripes.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2014
Gentlemen seem to mesmerise houses—cow them with an eye, and up they come, trembling.
From Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
