Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To arouse from a hypnotic state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To awaken from the hypnotic state.
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- verb To
release from ahypnotic state.
Etymologies
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Examples
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With “right effort,” we can dehypnotize ourselves and break the mental habits that bind us to the treadmill of our everyday selves.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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With “right effort,” we can dehypnotize ourselves and break the mental habits that bind us to the treadmill of our everyday selves.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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With “right effort,” we can dehypnotize ourselves and break the mental habits that bind us to the treadmill of our everyday selves.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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The way to undo this is to dehypnotize yourself—and you can do it by saying to the muscles of your body, “Let go, let go—loosen up and relax.”
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Dale Carnegie 1944
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