hypnotize
/ˈhɪpnətʌɪz
/(also hypnotise)
verb [with object]
1Produce a state of hypnosis in (someone): a witness had been hypnotized to enhance his memory...
- 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.
Synonyms
mesmerize, send into a trance, put under, put out, put to sleep
1.1Capture the whole attention of (someone); fascinate: she gazed down, hypnotized by the swirling tide...
- 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.
Synonyms
fascinate, entrance, beguile, spellbind, hold spellbound, enthral, transfix, be unable to take one's eyes off, captivate, bewitch, enrapture, grip, rivet, absorb, magnetize
informal bowl over, knock out
Derivatives
hypnotizable
- Quite simply, the hypnotizable survived at a higher rate, thanks to ritual healing, than the non-hypnotizable, and religion was born.
- I am extremely hypnotizable - nearly a 13 on a scale of 1 to 10.
- Seven healthy, highly hypnotizable volunteers participated in three one-day sessions, a baseline and two intervention sessions.