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magnetizing

magnetizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Forms of magnetizing

alternative formmagnetising

Phrases with magnetizing

Questions about magnetizing

What is magnetizing the present participle and gerund of?
Magnetizing is the present participle and gerund of magnetize.

Words near magnetizing in the dictionary

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

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