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Meanings of mesmeric in English

Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell.

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Usage of mesmeric in English
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Mahrez's mesmeric play has dominated the front pages of every daily paper.
The Guardian
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It is a mesmeric, intoxicating sight, a view to make one gasp.
Outposts: journeys to the surviving relics of the british empire
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I was conscious, but I was in a kind of mesmeric sleep.
Real Ghost Stories
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The sheer vacuity of his mind might naturally slide into mesmeric sleep.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
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There's a mesmeric momentum at the heart of Factory Floor's debut album.
The Irish Times
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On Saturday England had been bamboozled by Warne in a mesmeric display.
The Guardian
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But he knows that its power is mesmeric and cannot be escaped.
The Warriors
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But mesmeric influence, whatever it may mean, is entirely independent of sleep.
David Elginbrod
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It is as if they have been carved into some mesmeric pattern.
The Scar
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My eyes, I have often been told, possess magnetic or mesmeric power.
St. Elmo
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Did some mesmeric rapport tell him in his sleep she was there?
Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel
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The face is dominated by the shadow of them, the mesmeric void.
The Irish Times
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But Nocturnal Animals is such a step up: dazzling, shocking, mesmeric.
The Guardian
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But for it to work, you must be in mesmeric sleep.
Drood: a novel
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On TikTok, creators strive to stand out, generating content of the mesmeric sort.
Wired
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I suppose that you admit the mesmeric sleep and the power of suggestion.
The Parasite: A Story
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