2 meanings
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1 —as in:
hypnotized to try to remember
Definition
to put someone into a state of hypnosis (a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility)- 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)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- She is studying whether hypnosis can improve recollection by eye witnesses without corrupting memory through suggestion.
- The police want to hypnotize me to see if it will help me remember what she looked like.
- Her therapist hypnotized her.
- "If you can learn hypnotism," she suggested, "you might use it as anesthesia."Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- He did hypnotism tricks in the bars in Cullercoats and Whitley Bay.David Almond -- Clay
- Doesn't hypnosis make you say stuff you don't want to say?Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
- Besides, I may be of service, since you can hypnotize me and so learn that which even I myself do not know.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- At dawn Van Helsing hypnotized me.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- ABIGAIL, now staring full front as though hypnotized, and mimicking the exact tone of Mary Warren's cry: She sees nothin'!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
hypnosis = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
hypnotism = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
hypnotism = the act of putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
hypnosis = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration
hypnotized = a trance-like state of focused concentration
2 —as in:
hypnotized by her performance
Definition
fascinate so much that awareness of other surrounding things is lost or too much trust is granted- 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
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- She dazzles, hypnotizes, and defrauds.
- ...you hypnotize yourselves into thinking you want freedom.Jack London -- The Iron Heel
- In his despondency, he concluded that he had no judgment whatever, that he was hypnotized by what he wrote, and that he was a self- deluded pretender.Jack London -- Martin Eden
- So he delay, and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Undead have hypnotize him.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- Mom said the slot players were hypnotized.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- Aspen pulled me on top of him, and I brushed his scraggly hair with my fingers, hypnotized by the feel.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- 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.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotized by it,Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Looking towards the west, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves.Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
hypnotizes = fascinates so much that awareness of other surrounding things is lost or too much trust is granted
hypnotize = fascinated so much that awareness of other things is lost
hypnotized = in a trance-like state where everything else is forgotten
hypnotized = in a trance-like state where everything else is forgotten
hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
hypnotized = fascinated so much they lose awareness of other things around them
hypnotic = fascinating to the point of becoming unaware of other things