Magnetize

Quick meaning: Magnetize is a verb meaning (transitive, physics) To make magnetic.

Meaning

(transitive, physics) To make magnetic.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, physics) To become magnetic.
2. (figurative, transitive) To attract, allure or entice; to captivate or entrance.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To hypnotize using mesmerism.

Example Sentences

Mr. Hamlin’s hand passed carressingly twice or thrice along her sleeve with a peculiar gentleness that seemed to magnetize her.

Subdued and magnetized into submission, Ursula sat turning her tearful eyes from one uncompromising face to the other; but their attention was soon diverted to another weeper.

c. 1789, Elizabeth Inchbald, Animal Magnetism: A Farce, Dublin, P. Byron, Act III, p. 82, Lisette let him alone, it is dangerous to push the poor creature to extremities, Doctor, suppose we Magnetize him?

Drawing his material from the black hole of ghetto life and death, Pryor uses his dramatic power to magnetize his listeners into the fire-flash fear of the moment—even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance.

Word Forms

• magnetizes
• magnetizing
• magnetized
• magnetise

Synonyms for magnetize

Depending on context, synonyms include bewitch, mesmerize, spellbind.

Antonyms for magnetize

Common opposites include demagnetize, degauss.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mesmerize, spellbind, bewitch, magnetise, electromagnetize, remagnetize.

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