Antonyms for magnetize


Grammar : Verb
Spell : mag-ni-tahyz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæg nɪˌtaɪz


Definition of magnetize

Origin :
  • 1799, from magnet + -ize. Related: Magnetized; magnetizing. From 1785 in now-obsolete sense of "to mesmerize."
  • verb lure
Example sentences :
  • Put a vision in front of one of these currents and you can magnetize it in that direction.
  • Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
  • Then magnetize the needle, and keep the magnetoscope in your book.
  • Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower
  • (B) Magnetize the needle so that its point will be a N pole.
  • Extract from : « The Study of Elementary Electricity and Magnetism by Experiment » by Thomas M. St. John
  • Men had wondered how an electrical discharge could magnetize steel.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Great Inventions » by Elmer Ellsworth Burns
  • Thus you can magnetize the needle by using the other needle.
  • Extract from : « Electricity for the 4-H Scientist » by Eric B. Wilson
  • Samuel Ludvigh was willing that I should magnetize him directly.
  • Extract from : « Secret Enemies of True Republicanism » by Andrew B. Smolnikar
  • In trying to magnetize our beam of heat, we will adopt this arrangement.
  • Extract from : « Six Lectures on Light » by John Tyndall
  • Let it soak deeply into the tissue, it will magnetize your body, and renew it with youth.
  • Extract from : « Supreme Personality » by Delmer Eugene Croft
  • Once he offered to magnetize me in the manner of Monsieur P———.
  • Extract from : « Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Still she never moved; the sea at her feet seemed to magnetize her, and draw her to it with some unseen power.
  • Extract from : « Folle-Farine » by Ouida

Synonyms for magnetize

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