hypnotize
verb (used with object)
to put in the hypnotic state.
hypnotizes
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present tense formof hypnotize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It’s a disconcerting choice, one that hypnotizes as much as it unnerves.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
A sporadic character in Matt Groening’s animated science fiction sitcom, “Futurama,” the Hypnotoad is a toad with glowing, oscillating eyes that emits a droning hum as it hypnotizes people and animals.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023
Their drumming almost hypnotizes me; I can sit there for an hour listening to them.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
And in the short story The Euphio Question, an opportunistic businessman capitalizes on an astronomer’s bizarre discovery to create a “euphoriaphone” that hypnotizes society into complacency.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2022
Like the fish sort of hypnotizes you into not throwing the harpoon.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
