trance out

British

verb

slang to go into a trancelike or ecstatic state, esp through the effects of drugs or music

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“When you hear a good ballad singer, they disappear, and the story lives, and you kind of trance out listening to it,” Giddens said.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

All the morning she had moved and answered questions and smiled, when other people smiled, in a sort of trance, out of which she was afraid to waken.

From To Love by Peterson, Margaret

The conflict of my nature passed over at last into a trance, out of which so many awake only to die under the ground.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

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