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  • verb Alternative spelling of magnetize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb attract strongly, as if with a magnet
  • verb make magnetic

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Examples

  • "It is important for these business owners to develop product offerings in the run-up to 2010 specifically to magnetise foreign arrivals to these sites and activities ... related opportunities also exist in transport and logistics, as well as accommodation".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Orrin Smith the wood-engraver -- he who had previously tried to magnetise the idea of a "London Charivari" into life -- received many practical hints of the greatest artistic value.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • You will magnetise the Queen as you have magnetised me.

    The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild

  • And when in turn they, desired to send forth representatives would not they lay hands upon them, make passes over them and endeavour to magnetise them in the same way -- if that word may express the process?

    The Vital Message 1919

  • And when in turn they, desired to send forth representatives would not they lay hands upon them, make passes over them and endeavour to magnetise them in the same way -- if that word may express the process?

    The Vital Message Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • No cruel inhuman despot could magnetise with an enduring fascination multitudes of men and women as he did.

    The Tragedy of St. Helena Walter Runciman 1892

  • A doctor will magnetise water and cure his patient therewith.

    Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • He will magnetise a cloth, and the cloth, laid on the seat of pain, will heal.

    Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • Again, if we magnetise a piece of soft iron we can destroy its magnetism by striking it so as to agitate its atoms and throw them out of line.

    The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889

  • We might also magnetise the car, say by surrounding it with a coil of wire excited from an accumulator on board.

    A Trip to Venus John Munro 1889

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