verb
- To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe.
- usage: "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"
- Attract strongly, as if with a magnet.
- usage: "She magnetized the audience with her tricks"
- Put into a trance.
adjective
- Having your attention fixated as though by a spell.
- synonyms: fascinated, hypnotized, hypnotised, mesmerized, mesmerised, spell-bound, transfixed
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