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mesmerize (verb), mesmerizes; mesmerized; mesmerizing
1. To have someone's complete attention so he or she cannot think of anything else: When Patty met Sam at the party, he seemed to mesmerize and fascinate her so much that she couldn't take her eyes off of him!
2. To bewitch someone or to put a person into a trance: Dr. Grimms said he could mesmerize, or hypnotise, the patient during the therapeutic session in order to find out what happened at the accident the previous year.
3. Origin of the word: Mesmerize comes from the name of the Austrian physician, Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1733-1815), who was the first to produce examples of hypnotism to the public in Vienna about 1775.
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2. To bewitch someone or to put a person into a trance: Dr. Grimms said he could mesmerize, or hypnotise, the patient during the therapeutic session in order to find out what happened at the accident the previous year.
3. Origin of the word: Mesmerize comes from the name of the Austrian physician, Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1733-1815), who was the first to produce examples of hypnotism to the public in Vienna about 1775.