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Meanings of mesmerise in English

Portuguese
encantar
Catalan
encantar
Spanish
encantar

Attract strongly, as if with a magnet.

encantar
Portuguese
hipnotizar
Catalan
hipnotitzar
Spanish
hipnotizar

Induce hypnosis in.

hipnotizar
Usage of mesmerise in English
1
It is my intention, therefore, shortly to mesmerise one of my pupils.
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
2
Bolitho wanted to look away but she seemed to mesmerise him.
Honour This Day
3
No human power could mesmerise us, but the window did so.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891
4
Take the ferry from Balestrand and they will mesmerise you.
The Irish Times
5
Gentlemen seem to mesmerise houses-cowthem with an eye, and up they come, trembling.
Howards End
6
The English Premier League continues to mesmerise and the results for this weekend are no different.
The South African
7
He closed his eyes and made a studied attempt to mesmerise himself out of this pain.
Complete Books of Blood
8
The majority of light comedies of our day seek to mesmerise directly the mind of the spectator.
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
9
They are still with us, but they lost their ability to mesmerise politicians and intimidate everyone else.
The Guardian
10
I have had people try to mesmerise me a dozen times, and never with the least result.
In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observat...
11
The beams of the cottage seemed to mesmerise him though -he'd stare at them for hours.
The Guardian
12
But if this slipperiness makes them intriguing, it's the consistent sensuality of Warpaint's sound that makes them mesmerise.
The Guardian
13
Let me mesmerise you, Wilkie.
Drood: a novel
14
The Wales wing gave a side-stepping masterclass to mesmerise the visitors in a keenly-contested last-eight clash at St Helen's.
The Irish Times
15
It's at this point that you become aware that the unhurried movement of both players and ball has begun to mesmerise.
The Guardian
16
There were in those days but few people I could not mesmerise, provided sufficient opportunity were allowed me for hypnotic suggestion.
The Darrow Enigma
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Translations for mesmerise
Mesmerise through the time