Meaning & use
mesmerized
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Held someone's complete attention, as if by magic or hypnosis, so that they could not look away.
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The audience sat mesmerized as the dancer moved across the stage.
The toddler was mesmerized by the fish swimming in the aquarium.
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The word traces back to Franz Mesmer, an 18th-century physician whose theory of 'animal magnetism' gave rise to early ideas about hypnosis.
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