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Explanation
To be hypnotized is to have your attention captured, either by a hypnotist or anything captivating. When hypnotized, it's like you're under a spell. Hypnotists (if you believe in that sort of thing) have the power to capture people's attention and control them. Someone under a hypnotist's power is hypnotized, and the word is used for similar situations. If you can't put down a book, you have become hypnotized by it. People seem hypnotized when they are focused on something and can't look away. To be hypnotized is to be fascinated, mesmerized, spellbound, and transfixed.
Vocabulary lists containing hypnotized
Example Sentences
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Hypnotized by the image, Romeo felt a pang of regret.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024
Hypnotized by the Cold War, he launched his attack on Rousseau and then on the idea of ‘‘positive’’ liberty, and in the name of liberal pluralism wrote a fulsome panegyric to ‘‘negative’’ liberty.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2017
Hypnotized by his lustrous, jet-black fur, strangers would cross the street just to pet him.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2015
The band's second album of 1973, Mystery to Me, included one of Welch's most admired songs, Hypnotized.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2012
Hypnotized, Nhamo watched Masvita fasten a blue charm around her arm.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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