mesmerize has definitions from the field of psychology
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[ verb ] attract strongly, as if with a magnet

Examples

"She magnetized the audience with her tricks"

Used in print

(Genevieve Holden, Deadlier Than the Male....)

Gaylor 's obsession and Cunningham 's chimera-chasing reminiscences had mesmerized him into thinking_of Lila and Lilac , separately or together , as a legend .

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charm spellbinder

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[ verb ] (psychology) induce hypnosis in
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