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  • For a second the colors mesmerize me, bright green and deep blue and brown.  (source)
    mesmerize = like being in a trance (with all attention held)
  • For a while, I just close my eyes and listen, mesmerized by the beauty of the song.  (source)
  • He was mesmerized by the locomotive, watching it slowly pull in.  (source)
    mesmerized = with entire attention fully held
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  • Mesmerized by London's turgid portrayal of life in Alaska and the Yukon, McCandless read and reread "The Call of the Wild", "White Fang", "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", "The Wit of Porportuk."  (source)
    Mesmerized = fascinated
  • He was a mesmerizing speaker.  (source)
    mesmerizing = enthralling (capturing the full attention of listeners and holding them spellbound)
  • Garvey's dance seemed to mesmerize Peter, who watched closely, following every movement.†  (source)
    mesmerize = spellbind or enthrall
  • One by one the PLAYERS emerge, impossibly, from the barrel, and form a casually menacing circle round ROS and GUIL, who are still appalled and mesmerised.†  (source)
    mesmerised = spellbound or enthralled
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it mesmerized.
  • doubled and compounded—and then the demon must turn square around and run not only the fiance out of the house and not only the son out of the house but so corrupt seduce and mesmerise the son that he (the son) should do the office of the outraged father's pistol-hand when fornication threatened: so that the demon should return from the war five years later and find accomplished and complete the situation he had been working for: son fled for good now with a noose behind him, daughter doomed to spinsterhood—and then almost before his foot was out of the stirrup he (the demon) set out and got himself engaged again in order to replace that progeny the hopes of which he had himself destroyed?†  (source)
    mesmerise = spellbind or enthrall
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it mesmerize.
  • A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came—and went again and left the village duller and drearier than ever.†  (source)
  • Miles Hendon saved him the trouble; for he turned about, then, as a man generally will when somebody mesmerises him by gazing hard at him from behind; and observing a strong interest in the boy's eyes, he stepped toward him and said— "You have just come out from the palace; do you belong there?"†  (source)
    mesmerises = spellbinds or enthralls
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it mesmerizes.
  • It's the houses that are mesmerising me.†  (source)
    mesmerising = spellbinding or enthralling
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it mesmerizing.
  • He can't help it if his voice is mesmerizingly sexy.†  (source)
  • He realized he must have passed over the trail without noticing it, so returned the way he came, forcing himself to look down for signs, not up at the mesmerization of the peaks.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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