---

• v  attract strongly, as if with a magnet
• v  induce hypnosis in
• s  having your attention fixated as though by a spell

• Sure, the tax cuts for 95% may turn a few mesmerised heads for now.
• Americans are generally too quick to be mesmerised by spin.

• magnetize
• mesmerize
• mesmerise
• magnetise
• bewitch
• spellbind
• hypnotize
• hypnotise
• fascinated
• hypnotized
• hypnotised
• mesmerized
• spellbound
• spell-bound
• transfixed

Quotes

---

• Madhuri Dixit in Sify
  I had gone to the studio with my two sons -- Arin and Ryan -- to select the title song among various options. As soon as both my sons heard the number they were mesmerised and Ryan started dancing,Madhuri told IANS.
• Michael Jackson in IrishExaminer.com
  When I saw him move, I was mesmerised,Jackson said. "I knew that's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life because of James Brown."