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to magnetize

to magnetize

3 5.8
To attract people or their attention strongly
  • verb
  • /ˈmæɡnəˌtaɪz/
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  • That's when love magnetizes into your life and I see this for you.

So policing kind of gets magnetized to poor neighborhoods.

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Examples

  • You're going to scare away the wrong guys like that, but you're going to magnetize the right guy like that.

  • The human resource of vision is the container that magnetizes the creative spirit to bring one's original medicine into the world.

    Academic text (1990)
  • All cultures regard the importance of vision and its capacity to magnetize the creative spirit.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Your happiness is what's going to magnetize you to be able to create these these vehicles that will then provide financial support for that decision.

  • Everything I've been magnetizing to myself.

  • You're using your body in such a way to magnetize and elevate your stress level.

  • All eyes except mine were magnetized by the bundle of large denomination bills.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • It will so captivate you, so magnetize you, that you won't be able to hold yourself back.

    Blog text (32)
  • Eliot's modernized Coriolanus, the man on horseback, magnetizes the tumultuous Roman mob and makes them one simply by his presence.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The speaker used her charm to magnetize the audience, keeping everyone engaged throughout her presentation.

Synonyms

to mesmerize
vsto magnetize
  • US
39 6.4

To hold someone's full attention as if by magic

attracts people strongly by an impersonal, forceful physical pull
to bewitch
vsto magnetize
23 7.2

To attract and charm someone as if by magic

attracts by a strong impersonal force rather than intentional magic
to spellbind
vsto magnetize
1 7.0

To hold people completely interested as if by magic

attracts or influences through a strong, impersonal pull rather than charm

How Attractive

to captivate
19 4.2
to magnetize
3 5.8
to entice
61 4.9
to attract
991 1.9

Surface Forms

magnetize infinitive
magnetized past
magnetized past participle
magnetizing present participle
magnetizes third person singular

Morphology

magnetize = magnet (semi-transparent) = magnet + ize

This sense is a metaphorical extension from physical magnetism to strong attraction or influence, so learners need to infer a figurative meaning.

Etymology

Magnetize also comes from magnet ('a stone that pulls') plus -ize ('to make'). That's why magnetize can mean 'to attract or influence strongly', like someone whose charm seems to 'pull' people toward them.