What is the meaning of mesmerized?

verb

• Attract strongly, as if with a magnet.
  • usage: "She magnetized the audience with her tricks"
  • synonyms: magnetize, mesmerize, mesmerise, magnetise, bewitch, spellbind
• Induce hypnosis in.
  • synonyms: hypnotize, hypnotise, mesmerize, mesmerise

adjective

• Having your attention fixated as though by a spell.
  • synonyms: fascinated, hypnotized, hypnotised, mesmerised, spellbound, spell-bound, transfixed