Definition of "hypnotize" []

• To put into a state of hypnosis. (verb-transitive)
• To fascinate by or as if by hypnosis. (verb-transitive)

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• "He didn't know what "hypnotize" meant, but he had seen Robert almost go to sleep on his feet, and he felt a sense of terrible danger from the cool, composed person of the King."
• "At seven or eight he saw a vision of God in the clouds; at puberty he masturbated considerably and used to stand before the mirror and "hypnotize" himself."
• "Back in 4-H we used to "hypnotize" the chickens when we needed to move them, or crate them - much easier with a sleepy chicken than with a wide-awake, squawky one!"