Sample sentences for HYPNOTIZE

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)

(Heightened suggestibility means that the hypnotized person is more inclined to accept and act on suggestions of the hypnotist.)

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.

hypnosis = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility

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

Her therapist hypnotized her.

hypnotized = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility

"If you can learn hypnotism," she suggested, "you might use it as anesthesia."
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

hypnotism = a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility

He did hypnotism tricks in the bars in Cullercoats and Whitley Bay.
David Almond -- Clay

hypnotism = the act of putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility

Doesn't hypnosis make you say stuff you don't want to say?
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

hypnosis = 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.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility

"I want you to hypnotize me!" she said.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

hypnotize = put into a trance-like state of focused concentration

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

hypnotized = a trance-like state of focused concentration

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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.

hypnotizes = fascinates so much that awareness of other surrounding things is lost or too much trust is granted

...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

hypnotize = fascinated so much that awareness of other things is lost

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.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

hypnotized = fascinated

Joey kept pulling at his hand but it looked like Byron was hypnotized and he wouldn't move.
Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost

Mom said the slot players were hypnotized.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

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.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection

hypnotized = in a trance-like state where everything else is forgotten

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

hypnotized = so focused or fascinated that awareness of other surrounding things is lost

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