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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Others jump on Instagram or TikTok to proclaim that they always hated kittens until one perfect little love nugget materializes at their doorstep and hypnotizes them into bending the knee.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
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
This soul-scarring movie unfolds as though under a trancelike spell of its own making, one that disorients as much as it hypnotizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
“It’s in nonsense language; it makes no sense at all. It’s mumbo-jumbo. But it’s mumbo-jumbo that hypnotizes people. It dazzles and entertains, even though she is saying nothing.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2019
Like the fish sort of hypnotizes you into not throwing the harpoon.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
