All 7 Uses of
hypnotize
in
Starship Troopers
- I've had the injections, of course, and hypnotic preparation, and it stands to reason that I can't really be afraid.†
Chpt 1
- But some of you ain't got any minds to hypnotize so I'll sketch it out.
Chpt 1 *hypnotize = to put someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- It should — according to the map we had studied under hypnosis — be about three miles upstream from where I was.†
Chpt 1
- "We found," the older one said, "appended to each record off physical examination a duly certified conclusion by an authorized and delegated board of psychiatrists stating that each of them is mentally competent to take the oath and that neither one is under the influence of alcohol, narcotics, other disabling drugs, nor of hypnosis."†
Chpt 2
- I never have learned the co-ordinates of Sanctuary, nor the name or catalogue number of the star it orbits — because what you don't know, you can't spill; the location is ultra-top-secret, known only to ships' captains, piloting officers, and such …. and, I understand, with each of them under orders and hypnotic compulsion to suicide if necessary to avoid capture.†
Chpt 11
- It may be that the Navy has developed hypnosis techniques that they have not yet gotten around to passing on to the Army.†
Chpt 12
- One good thing about hypno preparation for combat is that, in the unlikely event of a chance to rest, a man can be put to sleep instantly by post hypnotic command triggered by someone who is not a hypnotist — and awakened just as instantly, alert and ready to fight.†
Chpt 13
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.)