hypnotize
verb (used with object)
to put in the hypnotic state.
was hypnotizing
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past progressiveof hypnotize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Jennifer Lopez was hypnotizing in a Tom Ford mosaic dress—the love child of a disco ball and a python—that changed color with her surroundings.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2019
But the juice of the grape was being extolled as absolutely essential to our daily diet at the Almeida Theater in Islington, where a riveting production of Euripides’s “Bakkhai” was hypnotizing a packed house.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2015
The burning incense was sweet and suffocating; the glowing candle was hypnotizing.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
And though he was hypnotizing himself into believing that his feeling for Aline had been the grand passion, the truth was that all that kept her in his thoughts was his own vanity.
From The Lost Road by Richard Harding Davis
Polly asked Davidge to retrieve her husband from the sloe-eyed ambassadress who was hypnotizing him.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
