Mesmerized

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A small child mesmerized by a camera

English

Adjective

Mesmerized (comparative more Mesmerized, superlative most Mesmerized)

1. Spellbound or enthralled.
2. Hypnotized.

Verb

mesmerized

1. Simple past tense and past participle of mesmerize.

Thesaurus

agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, arrested, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, becharmed, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, captivated, caught, charm-bound, charmed, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, fixed, flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, gripped, held, hypnotized, in a trance, in awe, in awe of, lost in wonder, marveling, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt, rapt in wonder, spell-caught, spellbound, staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck, under a charm, under a spell, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering

Alternative forms

• mesmerised (mostly British)

Translations

Adjective

spellbound or enthralled

German: hypnotisiert (de), fasziniert (de)

hypnotized