Meaning of hypnotize in English:
hypnotize
VERB(also
British hypnotise)
WITH OBJECT
1Produce a state of hypnosis in (someone)
1.1Capture the whole
attention of (someone); fascinate.
‘she gazed down, hypnotized by the swirling tide’
Pronunciation /ˈhɪpnətʌɪz/
‘I didn't hypnotize her, she hypnotized herself, I just helped her along.’
‘Without any telepathic powers, Dani could not hypnotise someone that did not wish to be hypnotised, but Carl had opened himself completely to her.’
‘He sees his
therapist, who hypnotises him.’
‘What we'll do is Dani will hypnotise you and keep you under while I use my telepathy to get into your mind.’
‘Or had the man with a cough, for his own nefarious purposes, mesmerised or hypnotised me, and to some extent succeeded?’
‘It seems
like he's hypnotized, I read once that hypnotized
people have an internal clock.’
‘I should mention that I was hypnotized earlier today, and I'm in a mental state altogether new to me.’
‘I was hypnotised by the rhythm of his politeness.’
‘Her eyes wandered in the circular
motion of the black
coffee, the trace amounts of
sugar swirling inside of it hypnotizing her.’
‘I gulped, and then looked away quickly before the power of Jonas' gaze hypnotized me into a stammering
idiot.’
‘I was fascinated by them, hypnotised by them - until you wake up and realise they're
nuts.’
‘I stared at the cross and officer's badge hanging from ribbons on the rearview mirror, rather hypnotized the whole way.’
Hypnotize (ˈhɪpnətʌɪz)
