HYPNOTIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypnotize mean? 

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

1. induce hypnosis in

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPNOTIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hypnotize    ... he / she / it hypnotizes   
Past simple: hypnotized   
Past participle: hypnotized   
-ing form: hypnotizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Induce hypnosis in

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

hypnotise; hypnotize; mesmerise; mesmerize

Hypernyms (to "hypnotize" 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 "hypnotize"):

entrance; spellbind (put into a trance)

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

Sam cannot hypnotize Sue

Derivation:

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

hypnotizer (a person who induces hypnosis)

 Context examples 

In his despondency, he concluded that he had no judgment whatever, that he was hypnotized by what he wrote, and that he was a self-deluded pretender.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)