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magnetized

magnetized is the simple past and past participle of magnetize.

Meaning of magnetize

Verb

magnetize (third-person singular simple present magnetizes, present participle magnetizing, simple past and past participle magnetized)

  1. (transitive) To make magnetic.
  2. (intransitive) To become magnetic.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To hypnotize using mesmerism.
    • Lisette let him alone, it is dangerous to push the poor creature to extremities, Doctor, suppose we Magnetize him?c. 1789, Elizabeth Inchbald, Animal Magnetism: A Farce, Dublin, P. Byron, Act III, p. 82
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To attract, allure or entice; to captivate or entrance.
    • As for Dudley Venner, no beauty in all the world could have so soothed and magnetized him as the very repose and subdued gentleness which the Widow had thought would make the best possible background for her own more salient and effective attractions.1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., chapter 21, in Elsie Venner

Adjective

magnetized (comparative more magnetized, superlative most magnetized)

  1. That has been made magnetic.

Forms of magnetized

comparativemore magnetized
superlativemost magnetized

Words formed from magnetized

Questions about magnetized

What does magnetized mean?
Magnetized means that has been made magnetic.
What is magnetized the simple past and past participle of?
Magnetized is the simple past and past participle of magnetize.
What part of speech is magnetized?
Magnetized is an adjective.

Words near magnetized in the dictionary

  1. magnetizability
  2. magnetizable
  3. magnetization
  4. magnetizations
  5. magnetize
  6. magnetized
  7. magnetizee
  8. magnetizees
  9. magnetizer
  10. magnetizers
  11. magnetizes

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