All 3 Uses of
hypnotize
in
Clay
- He did hypnotism tricks in the bars in Cullercoats and Whitley Bay.
Part 1 *hypnotism = the act of putting someone into a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- So we let him come to us in the night and we did things with him like levitating tables and doing Ouija boards and doing trances and hypnosis, and we told him about Joseph and Francis and about a kid called Plummer that could hold his breath for half an hour and talk to ghosts.†
Part 3
- I try to tell myself that I've been fooled, I've been deceived, I've been hypnotized, I've been … "Davie?" says Mam.†
Part 3
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.)