0 past simple and past participle of mesmerize
1 to have someone's attention completely so that they cannot think of anything else:
I was completely mesmerized by the performance.
Is it the fate of all men who hunt the truth to be mesmerized or fatally wounded by that which they discover?
The new cinematic technologies mesmerized audiences in ways that the most imaginative showman could never hope to with his primitive animation efforts.
These were usually filled with iron filings and mesmerized water contained in bottles arranged like the spokes of a wheel.
As he looks toward his towering female monument in the distance, the sculptor appears mesmerized.
Linton's authoritative voice, wit, and fast-paced arguments discourage readers from thinking carefully about her logic; instead, they become mesmerized by her dazzling verbal displays.
Social historians, by contrast, are mesmerized by the dramatic yet universalizing intensity of the slummer caricatures that are embedded in the documentary record.
To say that these associations are patentable is "genetic exceptionalism" : allowing oneself to be unduly dazzled, nay, mesmerized, by the novelty of biotechnology compared to other technologies.
But it is important to get the perspective right, and not to be mesmerized by some subjective impression of steady and accelerating escalation.
