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hypnotized

adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,684 of 15,258leans spoken

Hypnotized means put into a sleeplike trance and open to suggestion. Hypnotized on stage.

Nobody can be made to do what they would refuse awake, which is what most people get wrong. Hypnotized is used loosely of anybody staring at something and not moving.

André Brouillet · Public domain

Definitions of hypnotized

  1. 1adjectivehypnotizedPut into a sleeplike trance by a swinging watch and a soothing voice, so as to obey suggestions.B2

    “Half the audience believed the volunteers were genuinely hypnotized.”

hypnotized is a state.

Also accepted in games: hypnotised

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *swep-

  2. English

    hypnotize

  3. English, today

    hypnotized

hypnotize Derived from hypnot(ic) + ize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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hypnotized in the wild

  • If the chicken is hypnotized in this manner, it will continue to stare at the line and remain immobile for as long as 30 minutes.

    Chicken hypnotism

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.