HYPNOTISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypnotise mean? 

• HYPNOTISE (verb)
  The verb HYPNOTISE has 1 sense:

1. induce hypnosis in

  Familiarity information: HYPNOTISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPNOTISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hypnotise    ... he / she / it hypnotises   
Past simple: hypnotised   
Past participle: hypnotised   
-ing form: hypnotising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Induce hypnosis in

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

hypnotise; hypnotize; mesmerise; mesmerize

Hypernyms (to "hypnotise" is one way to...):

calm; sedate; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hypnotise"):

entrance; spellbind (put into a trance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

hypnosis (a state that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion)

hypnotiser (a person who induces hypnosis)

 Context examples 

I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotise her; but alas! unavailing till too late.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Professor tells me that this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotise me at all, and that all I could say was: "dark and quiet."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When I wake I try to hypnotise her; but alas! though she shut her eyes obedient, she may not sleep.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotise her; but she lay in a deep and sudden sleep, from which I could not wake her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I tried to hypnotise through her sleep, but she made no response, none at all; and the day broke.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He must hypnotise me before the dawn, and then I shall be able to speak.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I want you to hypnotise me!" she said.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At sunset I try to hypnotise her, but alas! with no effect; the power has grown less and less with each day, and to-night it fail me altogether.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At sunset time he hypnotised me, and he says that I answered as usual "darkness, lapping water and creaking wood"; so our enemy is still on the river.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Besides, I may be of service, since you can hypnotise me and so learn that which even I myself do not know.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)