hypnotize
verb (used with object)
to put in the hypnotic state.
half-hypnotized
-
a word derived from
hypnotize.
- a word derived from hypnotized.
Example Sentences
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These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it.
From Time Magazine Archive
But within a day of Jean-Luc Taron's murder, the case took a bizarre turn, and before the week was out Paris had been half-hypnotized with horror.
From Time Magazine Archive
A sense of mental sickness seized upon Max; while the woman Lize suddenly braced herself, changing from the inert, half-hypnotized creature of a moment before into a being of fury.
From Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston
Across his half-hypnotized consciousness little threads of burning fancy kept shooting.
From The Patrician by John Galsworthy
