Spellbound vs Mesmerize - What's the difference?
spellbound | mesmerize |
Fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell.
To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
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As an adjective spellbound
is fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell.As a verb mesmerize is
to exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.spellbound
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The book left the children spellbound .
mesmerize
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Alternative forms
* mesmerise (UK)Verb
(mesmeriz)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.}}