magnetize
verb🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪz/
🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪz/
(British English also magnetise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they magnetize | 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪz/ 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪz/ |
| he / she / it magnetizes | 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪzɪz/ 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple magnetized | 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪzd/ |
| past participle magnetized | 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪzd/ |
| -ing form magnetizing | 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈmæɡnətaɪzɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] (specialist)
to make something metal behave like a magnet 磁化；使有磁性 - be magnetized (by something)
These rocks are magnetized by the ambient magnetic field. 这些岩石被环境磁场磁化。 A compass is really a magnetized needle. 指南针实际上是磁化的针。
- be magnetized (by something)
- magnetize somebody
to strongly attract somebody 吸引；迷住