Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To put into a state of hypnosis.
- v. To fascinate by or as if by hypnosis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To bring into the condition of hypnotism. Also spelled hypnotise.
Wiktionary
- v. To induce somebody into a state of hypnosis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.
WordNet 3.0
- v. induce hypnosis in
Examples
“He didn't know what "hypnotize" meant, but he had seen Robert almost go to sleep on his feet, and he felt a sense of terrible danger from the cool, composed person of the King.”
“At seven or eight he saw a vision of God in the clouds; at puberty he masturbated considerably and used to stand before the mirror and "hypnotize" himself.”
“Back in 4-H we used to "hypnotize" the chickens when we needed to move them, or crate them - much easier with a sleepy chicken than with a wide-awake, squawky one!”
“But Obama insists on appeasing and pacifying thinking he can somehow "hypnotize" them like he does with MSNBC anchors.”
“They basically own every politician on the planet (including to some very significant degree, Barack Obama); God knows they own and control the banks of the planet ABSOLUTELY (indeed, banks are their chief weapon against "the masses"); they have all the weapons and police at their beck and call (this is called a Police State); and they have absolute control over nearly all of the media, so they can propagandize and literally "hypnotize" TV addicts to their hearts content.”
“They hypnotize us to believe in anything suggested and manipulated by the verbal techniques of persuasion.”
“Sometimes he'd hypnotize the dogs with a twirl of his hand, and snap his fingers.”
“As a consequence he could not really hypnotize her" Shirley added, "She Sybil didn't trust him as much.”
“The Founders could not have imagined how technology and mass media could hypnotize a free people, and how the imperative to buy as much of that juju as you can would throw the whole system they created out of whack.”
“If you can rub her stomach, I think you can hypnotize her.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hypnotize’.
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Speaking in Tongues - an REM list
Words heard in various REM songs that I enjoy and that I think are indicative of the band. Not too literally, of course.
pilgrimage, pageant, suspicion, penitence, gentlemen, chronic, stigma, deadlier, transit, fortunate, momentum, misconstrued and 162 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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breberrypearl's Words
geek, karma, allay, spate, apprehend, overweening, winsome, oatmeal, loco, shay, invincible, nee and 25 more...
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Words that are also songs
Totally ripped off from John.
tribute, sister, mother, pain, plowed, peaches, lump, kitty, drive, warning, duvet, clocks and 46 more...
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AiLin's list
New words
brazier, facetious, endeavouring, shook, kindred, hypnotize, frosty, funky, liege, knight, lunatic, credentials and 28 more...
Tweets
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lampbane "Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square?
Was fashion the reason why they were there?
They disguise it, hypnotize it
Television made you buy it" Jan 10, 2007