Verb

(mesmeriz)

To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized , like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}

Verb

(head)

(memorize)

Verb

to learn by heart, commit to memory

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* 2009 , A Practical Study of Argument (ISBN 0495603406), page 123:

Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.

* 2009 , Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy (ISBN 006197157X), page 258:

She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.