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magnetizes

magnetizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about magnetizes

What is magnetizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Magnetizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of magnetize.

Words near magnetizes in the dictionary

  1. magnetized
  2. magnetizee
  3. magnetizees
  4. magnetizer
  5. magnetizers
  6. magnetizes
  7. magnetizing
  8. magnetizing field
  9. magnetizing fields
  10. magnetless
  11. magnetlike

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