as in to fascinate
to hold the attention of as if by a spell
the crowd was hypnotized by the powerful, eloquent speaker
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Recent Examples of hypnotize
They're hypnotized, just like people on their phones.
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Natasha Gural, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
As part of the current surrealist wave, Dan Da Dan can often be hypnotizing to watch, and that’s intentional.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
This is the formal, technical, and maybe even industry term for exactly what viewers will suspect; the ornate sitting room of the Staten Island mansion where a group of vampires gather to lounge, fight, and occasionally hypnotize a private school principal to the point of irreparable brain damage.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2024
Police later hypnotized the witness, who was an auto body repairman, and were able to get a better description of the vehicle: a maroon-reddish 1970 Dodge Polara with a beat-up white vinyl top and its passenger door smashed in, according to a Statesman article from 1980.
—Skye Seipp, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Aug. 2024
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Natasha Gural, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
As part of the current surrealist wave, Dan Da Dan can often be hypnotizing to watch, and that’s intentional.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
This is the formal, technical, and maybe even industry term for exactly what viewers will suspect; the ornate sitting room of the Staten Island mansion where a group of vampires gather to lounge, fight, and occasionally hypnotize a private school principal to the point of irreparable brain damage.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2024
Police later hypnotized the witness, who was an auto body repairman, and were able to get a better description of the vehicle: a maroon-reddish 1970 Dodge Polara with a beat-up white vinyl top and its passenger door smashed in, according to a Statesman article from 1980.
—Skye Seipp, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Aug. 2024
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“Hypnotize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypnotize. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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