All 3 Uses of
hypnotize
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Outside the car, the pale wash of halogen headlights skimmed over the crushed gravel parkway, the rugged whir of the tires intoning a hypnotic rhythm.†
Chpt 3
- Hypnotically, he moved to the bedroom where his father lay on the bed in a drunken stupor.†
Chpt 10 *
- The hum of the engines and the gentle rocking of the plane were hypnotic, and his head still throbbed where he'd been hit by the monk.†
Chpt 73-74
Definition:
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(hypnotize as in: hypnotized to try to remember) 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.)