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She is studying whether hypnosis can improve recollection by eyewitnesses without corrupting memory through suggestion.
hypnosis = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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I want to be hypnotized and given the suggestion that I don't like to snack on fattening foods.
hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility (a state of hypnosis)
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Her therapist hypnotized her.
hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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The police want to hypnotize me to see if it will help me remember what she looked like.
hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
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The drive to BYU was hypnotic; by the time I arrived, my memories of the previous day had blurred and faded.
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hypnotic = related to a trance-like state
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I'd fallen into a slow, hypnotic rhythm, swing, swing; kick, kick; swing, swing; kick, kick, when my left ice ax slammed into a slab of diorite a few inches beneath the rime.
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hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration
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I think he hypnotized her, because Beth Ann sat down slowly.
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hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of heightened suggestibility
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When my mother went to her sisters, they followed and established dominion over all our pliant cousins, hypnotized like minnows before the pike's mouth.
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hypnotized = in a trance-like state
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He'll hypnotize you.
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hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of heightened suggestibility
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With one phrase he had turned happy picknickers into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd, being slowly hypnotized by gavel taps lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-pink-pink: the judge might have been rapping the bench with a pencil.
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hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
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"Well," he said at last in his friendly, knowing voice, "what are you going to do, hypnotize me?"
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hypnotize = to put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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Montag heard the voices talking, talking, talking, giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic web.
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hypnotic = so fascinating that awareness of other things is lost
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walked the hypnotized wolf-man through the theater
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hypnotized = in a trance-like state of heightened suggestibility
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ABIGAIL, now staring full front as though hypnotized, and mimicking the exact tone of Mary Warren's cry: She sees nothin'!
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hypnotized = a trance-like state of focused concentration
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"All we gotta do is hypnotize Mr. Krupp," said George.
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hypnotize = put into a state of wanting to do what told
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Hypnotism or something?
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hypnotism = the act of putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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They sank back into their seats, and stared at specks of dust climbing and circling in a weak shaft of winter sunlight. Henry was quiet, barely moving. Alfred concentrated on the little cold spot ....
"Are you guys hypnotized?" Spoon burst into the apartment... (source)hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration (a state of hypnosis)
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"If you can learn hypnotism," she suggested, "you might use it as anesthesia."
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hypnotism = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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But some of you ain't got any minds to hypnotize so I'll sketch it out.
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hypnotize = to put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.
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hypnosis = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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"I want you to hypnotize me!" she said.
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hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
- She had no idea where he'd heard of hypnosis.† (source)
- So gentle and rhythmic was the motion of Andrey's hands that one was at constant risk of falling under hypnosis.† (source)
- Swimming instruction, which in time became swimming practice, was gruelling, but there was the deep pleasure of doing a stroke with increasing ease and speed, over and over, till hypnosis practically, the water turning from molten lead to liquid light.† (source)
- Mr. Benedict has tried hypnosis and other treatments on me, all without luck.† (source)
- Doesn't hypnosis make you say stuff you don't want to say?† (source)
- Hypnosis!† (source)
- Hypnosis?† (source)
- Real psychic phenomena or group hypnosis?† (source)
- "It's not hypnosis.† (source)
- I'd probably get highway hypnosis, watching the snot run down all those little snotroads from their noses to their lips.† (source)
- It was a kind of self-hypnosis.† (source)
- It has a Christian summer camp whose founder, David Noebel, outlined the dangers of rock 'n' roll in his pamphlet Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles.† (source)
- A researcher at the world-renowned Institute has used hypnosis to induce hundreds of people to recall their previous-life experiences as pyramid-builders, exchange students and extraterrestrials.† (source)
- "She would like me to attempt a session of Neuro-hypnosis, with Miss Marks," says Dr. DuPont blandly.† (source)
- I could try hypnosis.† (source)
- Mass hypnosis.† (source)
- While you are under hypnosis I tell you that when I begin to drum my fingers on the table you will get up and open the window.† (source)
- It was hypnotism, she realized, because after a while she sort of felt that way, too.† (source)
- Sort of like hypnosis?† (source)
- Einherjar blinked and stirred as if coming out of mass hypnosis.† (source)
- Hypnosis.† (source)
- But Macon came out of his few days of sexual hypnosis in a rage and later when he discovered her pregnancy, tried to get her to abort.† (source)
- Ira drank—I think—for the same reason Danny Thomas sought hypnosis; for the same reason my father wept at night and kept a knife in his drawer.† (source)
- I felt that I should bring her out of the hypnosis.† (source)
- Hypnosis tends to unlock hidden memories.† (source)
- But if his experience had been only a hallucination, induced with chemicals or hypnosis, then it had no significance, and giving himself to the waking dream once again could not bring back those who were irretrievably lost.† (source)
- He seems again to be falling into a state of semi-hypnosis; his eyes scan the sky but it is in a kind of daze.† (source)
- Hypnosis can be rather unreliable.† (source)
- Maybe it was a kind of hypnotism, but the instant she looked at me, I knew I had no choice.† (source)
- He had only to fall into the pleasant hypnosis of travel; to watch the long ranks of trees as they passed; to view the mountains when they first rose over the fields; to observe the great round moon and its attendant bright stars shining through the streetcar's glassy walls; to match the whirring of the engines with the mad chorus of the cicadas; to be comfortable, and old, and content with small things.† (source)
- You know, they only ditched the truth detection test and hypnosis because they can't be sure what I'll remember.† (source)
- David had not remembered the man, but under Panov's hypnosis he had said the name —improbably it was Cactus — and Mo had brought the photographer to Virginia to help jar a part of Webb's memory.† (source)
- Tape's too isolated, and hypnosis is a trick.† (source)
- To achieve this would involve stimulation of all the senses, and perhaps hypnosis as well, but many beheved it to be practical.† (source)
- So they had gone at their subjects with metronomes, serpents, Brechtian vignettes at midnight, surgical removal of certain glands, magic-lantern hallucinations, new drugs, threats recited over hidden loudspeakers, hypnotism, clocks that ran backward, and faces.† (source)
- He had a way of talking, gesturing and bouncing along— hypnotism by words and movement—that fascinated my group even though, at first, they nudged each other with their elbows and flashed each other amused glances.† (source)
- "Hypnosis," he said.† (source)
- They had been puny in the early days, struggling to discipline their mutant powers with drugs, hypnosis, meditation, neurosurgery-forging them into Attributes-and across the ages, those powers had grown.† (source)
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The hypnotic eyes gazed into his own.
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hypnotic = trance-inducing
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That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.
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hypnosis = a trance-like state of heightened suggestibility
- Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. (source)
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He saw himself standing there in the dim lamplight, with the smell of bugs and cheap scent in his nostrils, and in his heart a feeling of defeat and resentment which even at that moment was mixed up with the thought of Katharine's white body, frozen forever by the hypnotic power of the Party.
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hypnotic = trance-inducing
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He must hypnotize me before the dawn, and then I shall be able to speak.
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hypnotize = to put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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I tried to hypnotize through her sleep, but she made no response, none at all, and the day broke.
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hypnotize = put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotize her, but alas! unavailing till too late.
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hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- At sunset I try to hypnotize her, but alas! with no effect. (source)
- When I wake I try to hypnotize her, but alas! though she shut her eyes obedient, she may not sleep. (source)
- And it has become a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotize her at such times. (source)
- Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotize her. (source)
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Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than this morning.
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hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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At sunset she made the usual hypnotic report.
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hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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We must try tonight at sunset to make her speak more fully when in her hypnotic state.
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hypnotic = under the influence of a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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This time she wake with not much trouble, and then I try to put her to hypnotic sleep.
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hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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Mina's morning and evening hypnotic answer is unvaried.
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hypnotic = under the influence of a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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When I saw the signs of the dawn I got ready for the hypnotism.
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hypnotism = the act of putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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I thought that it was another occasion for hypnotism, and without question went for the Professor.
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hypnotism = putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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Thus we shall have two more hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker!
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hypnotic = while in a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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The Professor tells me that this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotize me at all, and that all I could say was, "dark and quiet."
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hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- Besides, I may be of service, since you can hypnotize me and so learn that which even I myself do not know. (source)
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If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?
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hypnotize = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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He replied, "We have the best proof of that, your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning."
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hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report this morning was the same as usual, so it is possible that we may get news at any moment. (source)
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Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance, Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual.
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hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- I made a couch with furs, and Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual, but more slow and more short time than ever, to the hypnotic sleep. (source)
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At sunset time he hypnotized me, and he says I answered as usual, "darkness, lapping water and creaking wood."
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hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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Then tell me, for I am a student of the brain, how you accept hypnotism and reject the thought reading.
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hypnotism = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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That she is still journeying somewhere is apparent, for Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report at sunrise was still the same.
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hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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At dawn Van Helsing hypnotized me.
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hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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Here, Madam Mina's hypnotic power will surely help, and we shall find our way, all dark and unknown otherwise, after the first sunrise when we are near that fateful place.
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hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before, and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair. (source)
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If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?
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hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- When the usual time came round Mrs. Harker prepared herself for her hypnotic effort, and after a longer and more serious effort on the part of Van Helsing than has been usually necessary, she sank into the trance. (source)
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Van Helsing examines, he tells me, her teeth very carefully, whilst she is in the hypnotic condition, for he says that so long as they do not begin to sharpen there is no active danger of a change in her.
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hypnotic = under the influence of a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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Nor in hypnotism….
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hypnotism = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- "I've tried hypnosis several times and I remember nothing more.† (source)
- The whole hypnosis business was unpredictable, he'd confessed.† (source)
- You have to bear in mind that subjects under hypnosis are very suggestible.† (source)
- Also under hypnosis, people can say and do things 'not of their own volition.'† (source)
- "I thought hypnosis was only in scary movies," Violet said.† (source)
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When I look into her eyes, I feel hypnotized.
hypnotized = fascinated so much that awareness of other surrounding things is lost or too much trust is granted
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She dazzles, hypnotizes, and defrauds.
hypnotizes = fascinates so much that awareness of other surrounding or common sense is lost
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Mom said the slot players were hypnotized.
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hypnotized = in a trance-like state where everything else is forgotten
- Aspen pulled me on top of him, and I brushed his scraggly hair with my fingers, hypnotized by the feel. (source)
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Her eyes got this strange faraway look, like she'd been hypnotized.
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hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
- Joey kept pulling at his hand but it looked like Byron was hypnotized and he wouldn't move. (source)
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Looking towards the west, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves.
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hypnotic = fascinating to the point of becoming unaware of other things
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The waves were hypnotic; a thousand years ago they had looked the same, sounded the same.
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hypnotic = so fascinating that much that awareness of other things was lost
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But he knew his mouth had only moved to say hello, and then when she seemed hypnotized by the salamander on his arm and the phoenix-disc on his chest, he spoke again.
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And the longer I stood there, the more I became like-sorta hypnotized by the slick whistlin' of the cars as they rushed beneath us.
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hypnotized = fascinated so much that awareness of other surrounding things was lost
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They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotized by it, (source)hypnotized = fascinated so much they lose awareness of other things around them
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Snakes can hypnotize their prey.
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hypnotize = fascinate so much that awareness of other things is lost
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So he delay, and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Undead have hypnotize him.
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hypnotize = fascinated so much that awareness of other things is lost
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Joey looked like she was hypnotized.
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hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
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I started to say something to Dad but he looked pretty happy and before I could open my mouth the record hypnotized me back to sleep.
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hypnotized = put into a trance-like state
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He was hypnotized all over again!
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hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
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It was the way I spoke rather than what I said that hypnotized her.
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hypnotized = fascinated
- I talked on and on, spewing out of myself every doubt and fear that bubbled to the surface. She was my sounding board and she sat there hypnotized. (source)
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She toyed with her knife making circular depressions in a pat of butter and the movement hypnotized me.
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hypnotized = drew attention so much that awareness of other surrounding things was lost
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- They were hypnotized.† (source)
- She felt hypnotized by the squalor but Marta and her mother didn't seem the least bit embarrassed.† (source)
- Before he had left the dwelling, he had laid his hands firmly on Gabe's back and transmitted to him the most soothing memory he could: a slow-swinging hammock under palm trees on an island someplace, at evening, with a rhythmic sound of languid water lapping hypnotically against a beach nearby.† (source)
- Anyway, they hypnotize you — they ruin your willpower.† (source)
- And then she'd let him try to hypnotize her, but she didn't get sleepy, sleepy.† (source)
- It's intended to hypnotize God.† (source)
- The falling snowflakes were hypnotic.† (source)
- Seeing the vast, open sky in front of and below him had put him into some kind of hypnotized stupor.† (source)
- Her name was Nancy, and in a hypnotic monotone, she informed me that, due to my exemplary test scores and impressive employment record, I had been "awarded" the position of OASIS Technical Support Representative II.† (source)
- Hypnotically, he moved to the bedroom where his father lay on the bed in a drunken stupor.† (source)
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- Their boards barely a hand's breadth above the housetops, the patterns of shingles passed underneath hypnotically.† (source)
- We sat there in peaceful silence, watching its hypnotic descent.† (source)
- Or—he remembered something he'd read in a nature book—maybe he was like the prey of a snake that hypnotized its victims before it ate them.† (source)
- Grimacing on the ground, he heard Edwin beating the pieces of driftwood in a hypnotic rhythm.† (source)
- It called her speech "mesmerizing, hypnotic, mysteriously touching."† (source)
- I hypnotize myself so that, in my own mind at least, I am not here.† (source)
- He ran his thumb down the flat of the blade, as if he were hypnotized by its beauty.† (source)
- Perhaps my cousins were all relieved to hear that Owen was "getting over a cold" because they thought this might partially explain the hypnotic awfulness of Owen's voice; I could have told them that Owen's voice was uninfluenced by his having a cold—and his "getting over a cold" was news to me—but I was so relieved to see my cousins behaving respectfully that I had no desire to undermine Owen's effect on them.† (source)
- Like Barry, he seemed hypnotized.† (source)
- A door opens, or a window, and Marie-Laure can hear the hypnotic voice of the sea.† (source)
- He sat on a stone, and allowed himself to become hypnotized by the horizon.† (source)
- It's hypnotic, dizzying.† (source)
- Once on the TV this dude hypnotized a lobster.† (source)
- I walked right up to the man like I was hypnotized.† (source)
- Lucas, usually all smiles and jokes, falls into a strange, half-hypnotized state.† (source)
- Being hypnotized, um, does sound sort of sketch.† (source)
- My father stared at it, hypnotized.† (source)
- Standing on tiptoe, Violet opened the enormous door of the Reptile Room and for a moment, the orphans stared into the room as if hypnotized, entranced by the odd blue light which the sunrise made as it shone through the glass ceiling and walls.† (source)
- His innocence was hypnotic as I followed him around the house; I wiped the drool from his mouth and stayed one step behind him so he wouldn't get hurt.† (source)
- He must have been hypnotized by her ample breasts swinging from side to side.† (source)
- I'm hypnotized by his lips, his throat, as he swallows.† (source)
- The woman did not look up from the dough as she spoke but continued to beat it with a steady, hypnotic rhythm.† (source)
- I wasn't sure how I was doing it, but I was hypnotizing her!† (source)
- Sometimes he would get seized with oddly distracted moods and stare into the sky as if hypnotized until someone asked him what he was doing.† (source)
- His hypnotizing blue eyes study my face for several quiet seconds and I can't help but stare at his equally hypnotizing mouth while he speaks.† (source)
- Hypnotized myself a bit, you know, trying to remember number of steps?† (source)
- His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song.† (source)
- That, and the heat, and the hypnotic liquid murmuring of the river, and the movement of water against me.† (source)
- Josh turned his head and looked at her with those hypnotic eyes.† (source)
- He stared at the black bore in the center of the nozzle, nearly hypnotized.† (source)
- Supermarkets were especially bad, because of the long, hypnotic checkerboard aisles.† (source)
- I was almost hypnotized by the wonder of it all.† (source)
- The sound was hypnotic.† (source)
- Adah Price S UNRISE TANTALIZE, evil eyes hypnotize: that is the morning, Congo pink.† (source)
- My guess is that it's just a hypnotic trank.† (source)
- His golden eyes scorched from under his lashes, hypnotic and deadly.† (source)
- Hypnotized by the image of the fallen president, Keene imagined a scene with herself at the center of it.† (source)
- Owens later said of Holmes: "He induced me to make these statements by promising me my back wages and by his hypnotizing ways, and I candidly believe that he had a certain amount of influence over me.† (source)
- Mae was hypnotized by it, its slashing form, its fins like blades, its milky skin and wool-grey eyes.† (source)
- The customer stomps toward the double doors, drawn in by hypnotic organ strains.† (source)
- Crowds came to be hypnotized by the voice, the party anthems, the torchlight parades.† (source)
- The water bloomed with exotic, fractal-like patterns, mesmerizing and hypnotic.† (source)
- His voice was deep and rough, almost hypnotic.† (source)
- It was hypnotizing, somehow.† (source)
- Leto found himself almost hypnotized by a muscle on the left side of Yueh's jaw.† (source)
- " ' "You mean the teacher is hypnotizing the kids into believing the law of gravity?"† (source)
- A person can also be hypnotized into 'feeling' things like warmth and cold, a caress or a punch.† (source)
- But it was hypnotic.† (source)
- He was so hypnotized by that starlet he simply reached over and grabbed a piece and stuck it in his mouth without looking.† (source)
- The sights and sounds were hypnotic.† (source)
- He looks at me with chocolate brown eyes that are so intense I swear they could hypnotize someone.† (source)
- She did not move, merely stared at the tip of her cigarette as though she were hypnotized by it.† (source)
- Finally, they huddled together and stared as if hypnotized into the large orange blaze they ignited from the live coals carried from the first campsite.† (source)
- As part of our new act, I have hypnotized him!† (source)
- I watched his face, gentled by dreams, until sun winks off the polished fuselage hypnotized me, not quite asleep not quite conscious not quite in this dimension.† (source)
- I thought his words in Sadhese were hypnotic.† (source)
- The frenzied pattern, the faces hypnotized by routine … I wanted to go out in the bus with the team, but I couldn't.† (source)
- The kindling in the iron grate caught fire immediately, and he sat for a time on the hearth, cross-legged, adding logs and watching the flames leap, blue-edged and hypnotic.† (source)
- Hopefully, the troll would be totally hypnotized by his new Delta Force: Black Hawk Down video game (um …. ew).† (source)
- It was strangely calming, and almost hypnotizing to watch.† (source)
- Watching the churning water was hypnotic.† (source)
- I couldn't sleep that night, and Larry flicked on the hotel television to a yoga channel, where a smooth, handsome yogi struck pretzel poses on a hypnotic Hawaiian beach.† (source)
- I didn't think stubborn people could be hypnotized.† (source)
- They hypnotized me and that cut out the flashbacks and I couldn't remember the dreams.† (source)
- My eyes are fixed on those hands as if they're hypnotizing me.† (source)
- I found even the yellow of his teeth appealing to me; and I became almost hypnotized by the quivering of his lip.† (source)
- It was a combination of red wine and Our Fathers, which plunged the patient into a hypnotic trance.† (source)
- Colonel Cathcart was drawn hypnotically toward the window with a massive, dull stare of moody introspection.† (source)
- It was moody, creepy—almost hypnotic.† (source)
- I'd had some unofficial therapy sessions with Kate McTiernan and I had hypnotized her once.† (source)
- The burning incense was sweet and suffocating; the glowing candle was hypnotizing.† (source)
- Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.† (source)
- Or did you hypnotize them into believing they were getting something they weren't?† (source)
- Staring at the rotating red, white and blue stripes of the barbershop's "Marvy" pole, its motion momentarily hypnotized him.† (source)
- This creature was completely hypnotized.† (source)
- "You…chew…her…pork for her…," her father repeated, as if hypnotized.† (source)
- Oddly enough, it's the one place in the world that has a hypnotic hold on him-and also the one that's the least hospitable.† (source)
- Some said they looked hypnotized by fear.† (source)
- Sebastian was speaking to Amatis in a low, hypnotic voice.† (source)
- I try to tell myself that I've been fooled, I've been deceived, I've been hypnotized, I've been … "Davie?" says Mam.† (source)
- Rolf; you'll camp in the clearing so at least one of us is already there; plus, you're the best at Hypnotics.† (source)
- She was still rocking, the motion almost hypnotic, although clearly not to Thisbe, who continued to cry at full volume.† (source)
- "Right," The Goober said, nodding his head, eager, his attention fastened on the thought of the screwdriver, almost as if he were hypnotized, and Archie was carried on marvelous waves of power and glory, leading The Goober toward the ultimate destination, feeding him the information little by little, the best part of the lousy job.† (source)
- She knew that she went on speaking, because those around her looked as if they were listening, though she could not hear a sound, she went on speaking as if carrying out a hypnotic order given to herself some endless time ago, knowing only that the completion of that order was a form of defiance against him, neither knowing nor hearing her own words.† (source)
- Hypnotized by fear, like a mouse in front of a snake.† (source)
- It was like they were hypnotized.† (source)
- So basically you're going to try to hypnotize me, and then you're going to hook me up to these machines of yours and make me fall asleep while you toy with my mind using electrical stimuli.† (source)
- The masks had hypnotized me; the masks and the rings that proved that all the members of The Ten were my classmates.† (source)
- This was where he hypnotized a homeless guy into jumping to a gruesome death in front of a speeding subway train.† (source)
- The music is hypnotic.† (source)
- You sort of hypnotized me.† (source)
- The waves of air high above the clouds were more hypnotic than waves in the sea.† (source)
- The young apprentice felt himself being drawn into the hypnotic dance of the brazier's fire.† (source)
- I don't think he hypnotized me, but he just talked quietly and had me relax all my muscles and nerves and stuff.† (source)
- I no longer felt dazed, tired, half hypnotized, but alert and wary, ready to defend myself.† (source)
- He placed his hand lightly on Safia's and stared into her hypnotic eyes.† (source)
- The ducks seemed hypnotized by curiosity.† (source)
- That night I pitched the tent between two thickets and was lulled to sleep by a hypnotic, icy stream.† (source)
- He could not hypnotize the Indians during the process as had his predecessor.† (source)
- He couldn't hypnotize the Admiral at all.† (source)
- The hundreds of reflected points of light formed a fascinating and hypnotic pattern, and he felt himself becoming slightly dizzy.† (source)
- Hypnotic.† (source)
- I rode as a hypnotic, with my set gaze on the landscape that vibrated past at twenty-five miles an hour.† (source)
- The straightness of the way, the swish of traffic, the unbroken speed are hypnotic, and while the miles peel off an imperceptible exhaustion sets in.† (source)
- She's got you hypnotized.† (source)
- Never become hypnotized by the beauty of numbers.† (source)
- I've had the injections, of course, and hypnotic preparation, and it stands to reason that I can't really be afraid.† (source)
- Like a man in a hypnotic trance, he moves not by his own power but by the force of a thing outside himself, his badge.† (source)
- The drumming, at dose range, was deafening and hypnotic, the rhythms complicated, syncopated, insidious.† (source)
- Like those hypnotized people in pictures, with their heads resting on one chair and their feet resting on another, making bridges.† (source)
- They all watched, hypnotized.† (source)
- Edward's soft voice was compelling, almost hypnotic.† (source)
- People stared, hypnotized by the sight of the cobra.† (source)
- It was as if that first spoonful of soup had awakened his gut from a hypnotic trance.† (source)
- He watched, hypnotized, as it fell toward him.† (source)
- Mal'akh wondered if any of his hypnotized viewers had any idea where this prayer really came from.† (source)
- Lucas watched, almost hypnotized, as the plane careened through the sky.† (source)
- At the same time I sway towards him, like one hypnotized.† (source)
- His eyes were a dozen colors, shifting like a kaleidoscope, with hypnotic effect.† (source)
- A man who lived in England in the nineteen twenties was hypnotized.† (source)
- It makes them, for instance, a good deal easier to hypnotize.† (source)
- Bella stared down into the flames, hypnotized.† (source)
- So much had been lost, but there was a stillness to the city that was almost hypnotic.† (source)
- Mr. Taylor had hypnotized himself into the eerie world of horrors.† (source)
- His liquid gold eyes turned hypnotic as they held mine.† (source)
- In one of the windows I could see a lit candle, its flame flickering hypnotically.† (source)
- Edgar half slept, more hypnotized even by the afternoon sun than they.† (source)
- Langdon felt hypnotized by the camerlegno's presence.† (source)
- In fact, viewed from the roof like this, it was almost hypnotic.† (source)
- He had no idea how long be had been here, standing hypnotized before the bland gray locked door.† (source)
- What if Klaus had remained hypnotized forever?† (source)
- He could practically be in a hypnotic trance while he wrote.† (source)
- Then he said, Grace, have you ever been hypnotized?† (source)
- She looked out over the crick like the big eggy moon had her hypnotized.† (source)
- I allowed myself to become hypnotized by the sight of soldiers executing their duties.† (source)
- The balance wheel rocked hypnotically back and forth.† (source)
- You are reluctant to admit to yourself that you did something under my hypnotic orders.† (source)
- The camerlegno's certitude was hypnotic.† (source)
- When Dr. Jordan comes back, I am to be hypnotized.† (source)
- The music was infectious, the lights almost hypnotic.† (source)
- Well, what did the book say about how to stop yourself from being hypnotized?† (source)
- A Chinese merchant who lived during the Ling Dynasty was hypnotized.† (source)
- Don't go, Victoria," he murmured in that same hypnotic tone as before.† (source)
- I would never let myself be hypnotized, it is so immodest!† (source)
- "The accident," she said finally, "happened because Klaus was hypnotized."† (source)
- You've been hypnotized again; I know it.† (source)
- Maybe he doesn't know all those words when he's hypnotized.† (source)
- Klaus was hypnotized by Dr. Orwell, who is in cahoots with Count Olaf.† (source)
- There was an ancient Egyptian king who was hypnotized.† (source)
- Violet and Sunny sighed, and thought of their poor hypnotized brother.† (source)
- Yet another part of the dread came from the fact that Klaus had been hypnotized once more.† (source)
- Violet was still trembling from how Klaus had looked while hypnotized.† (source)
- It's as if I were hypnotized," Klaus finished.† (source)
- "And he's being hypnotized again, right now, isn't he?"† (source)
- In time, the tow rope to the boat captured her attention like a hypnotic decoy.† (source)
- She held the knife up, and her eyes fastened hypnotically on the glittering hook of its blade.† (source)
- She seemed almost in another world, a hypnotized person speaking out of a trance.† (source)
- The resulting music was not merely beautiful, but strangely hypnotic.† (source)
- They writhed back and forth in a hypnotic pattern, looking for an opening.† (source)
- He hypnotized me with his mystical vampire powers.† (source)
- They said the devils hypnotized, beckoned, would eventually draw the one who looked into the fires.† (source)
- And the creature stops moving, merely swaying where it stands, seemingly hypnotized.† (source)
- The flowing strands of rock seemed to move under the hypnotic light.† (source)
- All eyes were on Trina, as if she had some magical, hypnotic power.† (source)
- You see, the myth rides with him, that's the hypnotic factor.† (source)
- The waves rolled in a steady rhythm, the sound hypnotic.† (source)
- His expression was void, unreadable …. hypnotized.† (source)
- She stood motionless, both repelled and hypnotized by the sight.† (source)
- A squirt bottle swung from his belt, the blue liquid inside sloshing hypnotically.† (source)
- I'm mesmerized by her ability to hypnotize an entire audience with such powerfully portrayed words.† (source)
- An hour later, Miss Boon sat up and hissed, disrupting the hypnotic squeak of the oarlocks.† (source)
- It hypnotizes them, one and all, and they come back ready to endure another season of darkness.† (source)
- It is barren and mournful, but it does have a strange, hypnotic beauty.† (source)
- But the conductor and the regular train travelers sure weren't hypnotized.† (source)
- For some seconds neither of us moved but continued to stare hypnotically into one another's eyes.† (source)
- An hypnotic voice said FIVE emphatically.† (source)
- Marie watched, literally hypnotized by the change outside.† (source)
- "I'm the best you've ever had," he says hypnotically, like he's using Jedi mind tricks on me.† (source)
- Instead, she found herself staring into a pair of wide hypnotic eyes of hazel and copper.† (source)
- Music could be heard from within, hypnotic, tantalizing chords of a belyael.† (source)
- Instead he sat, crossing his legs, and stared at the program without moving, as if hypnotized.† (source)
- They were hypnotic, even through her shades.† (source)
- I rub a bare foot across the hypnotic swirls of the thick Tribal rug on the floor.† (source)
- They continued for hours, and their voices took on a hypnotic tone.† (source)
- The movement is hypnotic and we are under its spell.† (source)
- The crowd yelled and I laughed in response as though hypnotized.† (source)
- Perhaps it was the effect of my desperation, combined with the hypnotic lure of the surroundings.† (source)
- Their roar stupefied and hypnotized him.† (source)
- Oh, if you like, Star hypnotized us, then used psi powers to teleport us eight and a half miles.† (source)
- She was staring straight ahead, as if hypnotized by the headlights' beam, and her lips were moving.† (source)
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