mesmerise

Other forms of mesmerise

past tense

mesmerised·

present participle

mesmerising·

third person

mesmerises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mesmerise

What does mesmerise mean?

mesmerise means "attract strongly, as if with a magnet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mesmerise?

mesmerise has 3 syllables: me-sme-rise. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for mesmerise?

Close synonyms include magnetize, mesmerize, magnetise, bewitch, spellbind. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mesmerise a common word?

mesmerise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.