All 3 Uses of

hypnotize
in
The Poisonwood Bible

I'd probably get highway hypnosis, watching the snot run down all those little snotroads from their noses to their lips.†
Chpt 3 *

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

Adah Price S UNRISE TANTALIZE, evil eyes hypnotize: that is the morning, Congo pink.†
Chpt 1

"Well, that's good, because what I've heard about sleeping sickness is you die of it," I said, still combing, feeling like someone who's been hypnotized into that one single motion.†
Chpt 3 *

Definitions:

(1) (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.)
(2) (hypnotize as in: hypnotized by her performance)
fascinate so much that awareness of other surrounding things is lost or too much trust is granted