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hypnotize
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hypnotize as in:  hypnotized to try to remember

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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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    Her therapist hypnotized her.
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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    I think he hypnotized her, because Beth Ann sat down slowly.  (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of heightened suggestibility
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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.  (source)
    hypnotic = trance-like state of focused concentration
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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.  (source)
    hypnosis = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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    "All we gotta do is hypnotize Mr. Krupp," said George.  (source)
    hypnotize = put into a state of wanting to do what told
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    Hypnotism or something?  (source)
    Hypnotism = the act of putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
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    We climbed into the truck, picked up a new load and drove for another two days, watching the white lines disappear hypnotically beneath the hood, which was the color of bone.  (source)
    hypnotically = as in a trance-like state
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    drowsy smell that comes off the pages in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, a kind of hypnotizing smell.†  (source)
    hypnotizing = putting someone into a state of hypnosis (a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility)
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    The Snitch he had caught earlier was now zooming around and around the common room; people were watching its progress as though hypnotised and Crookshanks was leaping from chair to chair, trying to catch it.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it hypnotized.
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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.  (source)
    hypnotized = in a trance-like state
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    Tolstoy's final verdict on LEAR is that no unhypnotized observer, if such an observer existed, could read it to the end with any feeling except "aversion and weariness".†  (source)
    unhypnotized = pulled out of the trance-like state of hypnosis
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhypnotized means not and reverses the meaning of hypnotized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Rolf; you'll camp in the clearing so at least one of us is already there; plus, you're the best at Hypnotics.†  (source)
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hypnotize as in:  hypnotized by her performance

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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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    He sat on a stone, and allowed himself to become hypnotized by the horizon.  (source)
    hypnotized = put into a trance-like state
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    Mom said the slot players were hypnotized.  (source)
    hypnotized = in a trance-like state where everything else is forgotten
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    Joey kept pulling at his hand but it looked like Byron was hypnotized and he wouldn't move.  (source)
    hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
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    The waves were hypnotic; a thousand years ago they had looked the same, sounded the same.  (source)
    hypnotic = so fascinating that much that awareness of other things was lost
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    Snakes can hypnotize their prey.  (source)
    hypnotize = fascinate so much that awareness of other things is lost
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    Aspen pulled me on top of him, and I brushed his scraggly hair with my fingers, hypnotized by the feel.  (source)
    hypnotized = in a trance-like state where everything else is forgotten
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    Looking towards the west, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves.  (source)
    hypnotic = fascinating to the point of becoming unaware of other things
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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.  (source)
    hypnotize = fascinated so much that awareness of other things is lost
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    Her eyes got this strange faraway look, like she'd been hypnotized.  (source)
    hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost
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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.  (source)
    hypnotized = fascinated so much that awareness of other surrounding 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.  (source)
    hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is 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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